Sentence examples for settlements surrounding from inspiring English sources
City and oasis grew together, and over time Damascus came to dominate the lesser rural settlements surrounding it.
Sophisticated bronze, ceramic, stone, and bone industries were housed in a network of settlements surrounding the unwalled cult centre at Xiaotun, which had rammed-earth temple-palace foundations.
The mayor of Dir Kadis, Abu Mohammed, fears that his village will be crushed between the four settlements surrounding the 1,600 Palestinian residents.
It is one in which Israel keeps nearly all of East Jerusalem and a ring of Israeli settlements surrounding it, providing a cordon of Israelis between largely Arab East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, which will become part of a future Palestinian state.
Naiyobi and Kapenjiro villages, each with 5000 to 6000 inhabitants, were affected by the thickest ashfall of all settlements surrounding OL.
AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi's LinkedIn photoAngelList refused to answer questions about the circumstances of Nivi's departure, whether it was related to any misconduct, or whether it had struck any settlements surrounding Nivi's departure.
Similar settlements surround other large cities, notably the capital, Astana.
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).
(A barrier around Gaza has been in place since the 1960's, with Gaza's settlements surrounded by their own walls).
The new Jewish settlements surrounded the city; the Israeli army patrolled both halves of the city and everywhere beyond the Jordan river.
