Sentence examples for settlements at the expense of from inspiring English sources

Water was diverted to benefit Jewish settlements at the expense of Palestinian villagers.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID RUBINGER / CORBIS VIA GETTY Water was diverted to benefit Jewish settlements at the expense of Palestinian villagers.

But Hazony concludes that these religious Zionists ultimately failed to inspire Israelis because they, like the Labor Zionists before them, became mired in the task of building settlements at the expense of developing ideas that would motivate their fellow Israelis.

The leader of the Labor Party, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, continued to make an issue of the expansion of settlements at the expense of the poor, the reason he gave for leading Labor out of the government last week.

Kiryat Sefer has an even worse record than other West Bank settlements for expanding at the expense of its Palestinian neighbours.

Some have saved money to cover their liabilities, but others have used up their malpractice reserves, meaning that any future awards or settlements could come at the expense of patients' care, and one hospital has closed its obstetric practice, in part out of fear of lawsuits.

As a result, an increased number of Israelis are showing greater forbearance to Netanyahu's rejection of Obama's demand to freeze the settlements -- even at the expense of creating tension with Washington.

We presuppose that the territory of informal settlements can expand only at the expense of the green territories.

The analysis also revealed that the expansion of cultivated and rural settlement land occurred mainly at the expense of forest, shrub land, grass land, bare land, and wet land and then it gains a total of 2503 ha of land during the first period (1964 1986).

The rapid industrialization of the region since the mid-19th century caused coastal cities, including Donostia San Sebastián and Bilbao, to grow at the expense of settlements in the hinterlands.

The minimum cost of $400 for 320 acres proved prohibitive for all but the wealthiest Americans and encouraged speculation at the expense of settlement.