Sentence examples for settlements surrounded by from inspiring English sources

Thick black smoke can be seen rising from small settlements surrounded by green fields along miles of the border.

(A barrier around Gaza has been in place since the 1960's, with Gaza's settlements surrounded by their own walls).

Some were isolated, tightly nucleated physical settlements surrounded by their agricultural land, whereas in others houses were dispersed through the land holdings.

They were a tropical-forest people known to eat human flesh, to be warlike, and to live in settlements surrounded by palisades (palenques).

Alternating waves of prosperity and persecution have borne the Hutterites from Moravia to Russia and, finally, in the 1870's, to North America, where most of them now live in small, communal settlements, surrounded by the raw, expansive landscape they call home.

Palestinians have complained that Sharon is relinquishing control of Gaza, where 8,200 Jewish settlers are surrounded by about 1.2 million Palestinians, so he can strengthen his grip on the West Bank, where about 243,000 settlers live in 120 settlements surrounded by about 2.2 million Palestinians.

Of excavated sites in Punjab, Banawali is an important major settlement, surrounded by massive brick defenses.

In Hebron, about 450 Jews live in a settlement surrounded by an estimated 150,000 Palestinians.

But in the Bombay Hotel settlement, surrounded by 4km in either direction of exclusively Muslim slum, he feels safe.

A bare-bones fire service is doggedly maintained in Highland Park, "the Detroit of Detroit", a separate, even frailer settlement surrounded by the city.

Glueck's excavations (1938 40) proved that the site had been a fortified settlement surrounded by strong walls from the 10th to the 4th century bc.