Sentence examples for settlements around the world from inspiring English sources

The exhibitors offer it as a model for other informal settlements around the world.

But crucially, they also allow the homeowners themselves to invest in the property to bring it up to a middle-class standard: the exact same process that happens without guidance (and indeed often against the law) in informal settlements around the world.

Prof Kemp says there have been departures from the median line principle in various settlements around the world, including judgements made by the International Court.

Although the degree of correlation between population and night lights will vary globally, this analysis provides a single, consistent metric of size for the full range of human settlements around the world.

Masks of zero population are another alternative, though aside from waterbodies (for which reliable and sufficiently high resolution data is rare), deciding what constitutes an area of no human habitation is difficult, with settlements existing around the world in national parks, industrial areas and deserts for instance.

Nearly one billion people live in urban slums and informal settlements in cities around the world, with huge problems in accessing clean water, energy and sanitation.

"The idea that the government can simply push people from their homes, with no discussion, no recognition of decades of residency … seems unfortunately normal in Lagos," says Robert Neuwirth, who lives in and writes about informal settlements like Makoko around the world.

Palestinian leaders are fiercely opposed to the expansion of the Israeli settlements, which governments around the world consider illegal.

Food plant selections would also have been made in the ten or so other centres of settlement that occurred around the world at this time.

While TV networks beamed news of the settlement onto trading floors around the world, Cohen sat at his desk in Stamford.

They quickly reached a settlement, with Prince Jefri agreeing to give back all his assets around the world and live on a monthly allowance of $300,000.