A big settlement stands to help his agency's cause.
"It's now important that any new constitutional settlement stands the test of time and crucially maintains cross party support.
Furthermore, she differentiates the epistemological project of the settlement from the university in language that acknowledges a caring element: "The settlement stands for application as opposed to research; for emotion as opposed to abstraction, for universal interest as opposed to specialization" (FSS 189).
Shaul Goldstein, the mayor for a group of settlements, stood on the bluff here tonight, gazing down into the plunging gorge that led to the Dead Sea and musing about why he preferred the word "community" to the word "settlement".
A 2007 report by the Israeli NGO Peace Now found that 24 percent of the land on which settlements stand is privately owned by Palestinians.
In the countryside not far away, whole settlements stand in silent desolation, abandoned in a furious war that raged here in the Caucasus more than a decade ago.
Much of the land on which their settlements stand, was, as Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar detail in this important book, simply stolen.
With startling red-tile roofs, fences topped with barbed wire and patrols of Israeli soldiers, the settlements stand on the hilltops where the Palestinians' grandfathers' olive trees once did, a daily reminder, they say, of their freedom denied.
As Amnesty International has said: Swimming pools, well-watered lawns and large irrigated farms in Israeli settlements stand in stark contrast to Palestinian villages whose inhabitants struggle even to meet their essential domestic water needs.
While yesterday's torture settlements stand as yet another silent admission by the city, it continues to funnel additional millions in taxpayer money to defend Burge, his confederates, and a pantheon of city officials in several torture cases that remain unsettled.
