Sentence examples for settlements which are from inspiring English sources

Rural areas are grouped into caseríos (settlements), which are subdivisions of aldeas.

Oxfam says it "is opposed to all trade from Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law".

Those settlements, which are illegal under international law, house around 500,000 Jewish settlers and are largely inaccessible to Palestinians.

Meanwhile, international aid was only just starting to trickle into remote Nepalese villages and settlements which are feared to have been among the worst affected by the quake.

The majority of deaths in the 2005 flood occurred in informal settlements, which are home to more than half of Mumbai's population.

The north also contains the majority of the country's hill settlements, which are similar to, though smaller than, the nucleated villages of northeastern Thailand.

Those settlements, which were based on intensive taro cultivation using complex irrigation systems, were protected by massive ring-ditch fortifications.

These settlements, which were occupied roughly between 800 and 1600 A.D., included houses and moats and palisade walls.

"But the unauthorized settlements, which is different from the authorized settlements, is an issue we've been very clear on," he said.

Despite these failings, the NAO concluded that five negotiated settlements which were the subject of the report were "reasonable" and fair to the public purse.

Surface settlements, which were also a source of concern, were small.