Sentence examples for settlements and changes from inspiring English sources

The settlements and changes to the border, in other words, could never be treated separately from a larger agreement.

We attribute the forest dynamics observed to temporal changes in socioeconomic factors, such as increasing human settlements and changes in environmental protection policies.

We also know that according to a study by J. Morgan Kousser, a professor of history and social science at the California Institute of Technology, there were more than 4,100 voting-rights cases, Justice Department inquiries, settlements and changes to laws in response to the threat of lawsuits around the country where the final result favored minority voters.

There is a more rapid increase in the poverty level in urban areas compared to the rural areas and this has caused an alteration in the spatial distribution of human settlements and changed the use of natural land to urban use.

But in an unexpected turn of events this summer, the commission overturned the original settlement and changed its policy of allowing defendants to "neither admit nor deny" wrongdoing.

Over the course of his campaign, however, Mr. Donovan has repeatedly promoted his cautious, nonconfrontational approach to Wall Street, saying that he has no intention of serving as the financial industry's "sheriff," a nickname earned by former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, whose aggressive investigations resulted in billion-dollar settlements and sweeping changes.

But when efforts to wrest control from the courts failed a year later, Beard oversaw settlements and policy changes that sought to resolve those disputes.

The model addresses factors that make locations attractive for trade and settlement, affecting settlement growth and change.

To examine the spatial patterns of farmland and rural settlements and their change over time, a set of pattern metrics that capture different dimensions of land fragmentation was identified.

"I think the actual settlement and the changes it brought were good for the industry," one senior Wall Street executive said.

Vostu has paid Zynga an undisclosed sum as part of the settlement and made changes to its games.