Sentence examples for settlements spread from inspiring English sources

But with their stories of remote anarchist settlements spread throughout a vast cosmos, Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, Excession, etc, deal with similar themes to No Man's Sky.

Superordinate control at the tribal level was generally avoided, although the consolidation of tribelets into larger coalescent groups and even the formation of intertribal confederacies occurred as European settlements spread in the region.

In essence, the massive increase of settlements spread over the northwestern delta in Classical Antiquity was spurred by multiple branches that provided routes of transportation, fresh water for irrigation and good conditions for agriculture on their elevated and fertile levees.

Thus the household moggie, a feline immigrant from the Middle East arrived in the homes of Britain, while the nation's own wildcats – made up of members of the larger, stronger striped species of European wildcat, Felis silvestris silvestris, were pushed to the margins of the nation as settlements spread and its wild places were stripped away.

Residents can recall providers laughing over the phone at their request for an Internet hookup, or the perplexed look of technicians upon arriving in Verrua Savoia, where just 1,500 residents live in dozens of small settlements spread over nearly 20 miles of valleys and steep hillsides in northern Italy.

In the case of Bogotá, such issues are worsened by the location of the informal settlements, spread in the southern part of the city, characterized by higher elevation and high distances from the city center; moreover, these areas host the highest densities of inhabitants and are home to the worst-off groups (Figs. 1 and 2).

Israelis drive on highways to settlements spreading like garrisons on hills.

Rapid growth of many cities in Europe in recent decades has resulted in the expansion of human settlements spreading into fire-prone landscapes.

From the hospital's vantage point we looked over vast Israeli settlements spreading across the West Bank, as well as the wire fences, high walls and roads that increasingly separate the Jewish and Arab populations.

It's the same story we see across the world: habitat loss driving elephants to raid crops, human settlements spreading into tiger territory, and people losing their lives to big cats.

Following construction of a transcontinental railway in the early 1880s, further settlement spread across the plains.