Sentence examples for strategic settlements from inspiring English sources

However, except for East Jerusalem, where the Jewish population increased dramatically in the years of Labour dominance, by 1977 only about 5,000 Israelis lived in these so-called strategic settlements.

Later in the European Middle Ages it was a strategic settlement fiercely contested by Magyars and Turks.

GAO, Mali Frenchch and Malian troops appeared on Monday to have reasserted control of this strategic settlement in northern Mali after a protracted firefight with Islamist extremists who infiltrated the city after being chased from it two weeks ago.

A top priority for David Cameron and Barack Obama in their talks in Washington on Wednesday must be to convince the rest of the world that they really do want a political and strategic settlement in Afghanistan, and they want one soon.

The tanker's initial unauthorised journey had led to the dismissal of Ali Zidan as Libya's prime minister.Syrian government forces dealt a blow to the rebels by retaking the strategic settlement of Yabroud, north of Damascus, the last town in that area in rebel hands.

"We underestimated the ability of Cephalon to effectively defend the Provigil franchise via strategic patent settlement," wrote Credit Suisse analyst Ken Kulju in a Feb. 1 report.

The Azeri defense ministry said on Saturday the army had "liberated strategic heights and settlements" in the region.

The previous day it said the Azeri army had "liberated strategic heights and settlements" in the north and east of the region.

Since then, Israel has gradually sliced up the West Bank assigned by the UN to the Palestinians into a strategic network of "settlements" that will make a farce of any two-state solution that both the UN and subsequent agreements were supposed to facilitate.

Some have seen a purely strategic purpose in settlement, but others have postulated an intent to use the colony as a springboard for economic exploitation of the area.

They also discerned a strategic value to settlement; these kipa-wearing pioneers would keep watch over the newly conquered Arabs, and they would help protect Israel's middle — at its narrowest, Israel is nine miles wide.