Sentence examples for settlements in the past from inspiring English sources

"Like the founding fathers of other utopian settlements in the past, he was unhappy with the world around him," he wrote of Mr. Williamson.

It's not that the Yugur people had never lived in permanent settlements in the past, but the wide dispersal of natural resources across grasslands and deserts determined that most Yugurs had to live as nomads.

The coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by Nigerian Boko Haram fighters, who have focused on hit-and-run raids on individual settlements in the past, Information Minister Issa Tchiroma added.

settlement in the past, seems to be going along with the governor's notion that because he is appealing, this gets kicked off for a year," said Michael A. Rebell, the executive director of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.

Apple has offered Samsung terms for settlement in the past, which Samsung found unpalatable, but unlike HTC, Samsung has the resources to avoid accepting any deals that it doesn't fully agree with.

Particularly in the first valley, there are a lot of underground openings of different sizes carved in a soft tuff next to the valley cliffs used for cliff settlement in the past and several antique churches with some geo-engineering problems.

The Palestinians not only have rejected one offer after another for a peaceful settlement in the past nearly 70 years, but also, tragically, their misguided actions now make any chance of an accord going forward still less likely.

Indeed, they point out that settlements have in the past tended to expand even faster when a peace process is under way.

As the only dry land available, tree islands were ideal for human settlements in the distant past and contain numerous archeological sites.

One cause for concern is the sharp increase in treasury settlement "fails" in the past few years, caused by a failure to return securities on time to the lender (see chart): these tend to jump when the repo rate is low and bonds are scarce.

As a result of the total of settlement agreements in the past eleven years, the EPA reports, refiners have agreed to invest about $6 billion in new pollution controls designed to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants by over 360,000 tons per year.