Sentence examples for settlement to extend from inspiring English sources

However, it took about 80 years for settlement to extend west to the Ridge and Valley area of central Pennsylvania.

The railway companies challenged the need for a new service, claiming it would simply drain passengers from their own trains and that any extension should only run as far as Tooting, but Pick was able to counter their arguments and negotiated a compromise settlement to extend the C&SLR as far as Morden.

Downing Street played down suggestions that Britain might withdraw its ambassador from Israel in protest against the Israeli government's decision to extend settlement building in East Jerusalem.

Updated at 11.23am GMT 10.29am GMT My colleague Haroon Siddique is covering the Foreign Office's decision to threaten to withdraw Britain's ambassador to Israel as a protest against Israel's decision to extend settlement building in East Jerusalem on our Middle East live blog.

Israeli reports said the US was pressing Israel to freeze settlement construction in East Jerusalem and to extend a temporary, partial curb on West Bank settlement building.

Netanyahu is unlikely to extend the settlement moratorium and some limited construction in Jewish West Bank settlements will happen.

The United States has asked him to extend the settlement freeze for 60 days in return for security incentives.

He refused to extend the settlement moratorium, or negotiate the "core issues" of borders, Jerusalem, and refugees with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas – who jumped at the opportunity and boycotted talks until Israel halts the settlements.

Beyond that, Mr. Netanyahu, who has consistently resisted attempts by the Obama administration to extend a settlement freeze to aid peace talks with the Palestinians, is not exactly in good favor with the Obama administration right now.

Mr. Netanyahu is still mulling an offer from the United States to extend the settlement freeze for two to three months in exchange for American security guarantees and military hardware.

But yesterday, after New York State rejected a final chance to extend the settlement talks for two months during a special hearing in Fort Myers, Fla., Judge Neal McCurn of Federal District Court in Syracuse declared an impasse.