Sentence examples for settlers known as from inspiring English sources

Nearby is a building owned by Jewish settlers, known as Beit Yonatan, which the authorities have ordered be evacuated and sealed.

Secularization of the missions was sought by Spanish Mexican settlers known as Californios when Mexico became independent of Spain in 1821.

The skeletal American Army had beaten a powerful confederation of Great Lakes Indians, and the president himself had led a force to suppress an insurgency of Western settlers known as whiskey rebels.

Noor Hossain, a resident of a neighbouring village, Ngasaku, told the Guardian by phone that the Burmese soldiers had arrived in Kyet Yoe Pyin on 11 October accompanied by Buddhist settlers known as Natala.

Liberia calls its currency the dollar; it has a constitution, a flag and a government modeled on ours; and it is still largely controlled by the descendants of the original settlers, known as Americo-Liberians.

The religious Zionists developed a corps among the settlers known as Gush Emunim, the Bloc of the Faithful, which fervently opposed the idea of giving up any part of the land: Sinai to the Egyptians; the Golan to the Syrians; the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians.

For example, one story in Hudlin's run depicts one of T'Challa's ancestors defending his nation against an assault led by a European settler known as Klaue.

Besides the Pilgrims, or "Saints", the rest of the Mayflower settlers were known as the "Strangers".

In 1984, authorities uncovered plots by a settler group known as the Jewish Underground to bomb Arab buses and to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount.

In the second half of the 18th century, settlers from New England (known as Planters) and, later, American colonists loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution (known as United Empire Loyalists) settled much of western and northern Nova Scotia, with scattered settlements elsewhere.

Kloos (1982) expresses this as follows: "The idea was to provide irrigated land, training and services on the margins of commercial plantations for would-be Afar settlers who were known as 'outreach growers'".