Sentence examples for significant settlements from inspiring English sources

In one sense, it is this remoteness that connects them: few significant settlements lie in between and their distance from other major cities has historically forced them to look towards one another.

But the city has paid significant settlements in other cases where officers were acquitted, including $3 million to the family of Amadou Diallo, who died in a hail of police bullets in 1999, and $2.3 million for Dantae Johnson, who was shot in 1999 and survived.

Fig. 1 Maps of the Etna region showing: a Map of Mount Etna and surrounding significant settlements with inset map showing the regional setting.

Major financial services firms, including Citigroup, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro, have each announced significant settlements in securities actions brought by private shareholders and arising from the WorldCom bankruptcy.

Construction overload on high compressive soils can cause significant settlements as to require the design of an appropriate soil treatment, including load compensation, aimed to hold the stress-strain state present in the soil when undisturbed.

These are significant settlements.

Matera was already a significant settlement in the Bronze Age.

According to my map, we're nearly 100 miles from any significant settlement or village.

She sued American Express in 1993, and she said she received a significant settlement.

The only other significant settlement is Uranium City, which is important for its gold and uranium mines.

Hanga Roa, on Easter Island, might be thousands of miles from any significant settlement, though it only has a few thousand residents, hardly qualifying it as a city.