Sentence examples for settlements difficult from inspiring English sources

What remains of this salient is a patch of rocky, mountainous terrain with few settlements, difficult for rebels to hold, since Mr Assad has a monopoly of air power and heavy artillery.Yabroud's fall may prove to be a minor watershed.

This made a settlement difficult, since paying back any of the principal investment might have been construed as an admission of guilt on the part of the Wilpons.

Communications between settlements were difficult, and excessive mobility was discouraged for military reasons.

The government's aid to the settlements is difficult to trace because much of it moves through complex bureaucratic conduits or is hidden in vaguely described budget items.

Electrification has been on government agendas since the country's independence from colonial rule, but it has run into hurdles, especially because of the huge logistical challenges of bringing electricity to faraway settlements in difficult terrain.

While the areas where participants live are spread over kilometers of land and in the winter rainy seasons, the unpaved roads of the informal settlements become difficult to navigate, the generalizability of these results to other parts of South Africa or, for that matter, to other developing countries is uncertain.

Council leader David Parker said: "The settlement is a difficult settlement in difficult, austere times but it's a fair settlement".

All of this has made decisions on how to treat Jerusalem in a peace settlement extraordinarily difficult.

Yet this has been our policy, and it is the pursuit of democracy in this context that makes any settlement so difficult.

For advocates of the Palestinian cause, the alternative to pressing for the two-state settlement, a difficult objective which still retains a decent amount of support, is to pursue a far more difficult objective that enjoys considerably less support.

Calculating how much money each limited partner will receive from the tentative settlement is difficult because several different partnerships are at issue and not all partners invested the same amount.