Sentence examples for there were settlements from inspiring English sources

However serious an issue the settlements may be, the essence of the conflict is the same today as it was before there were settlements: the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.

By ad 1300 there were settlements at Utrecht, Delft, Leiden, Amsterdam, Gouda, and Haarlem, and dikes had been built along the Zuiderzee, Haring River, Hollandsh Canal, and the rivers of Nieuwe Maas (Meuse) and Nieuwe Merwede.

There were settlements in the area of Middlesex that can be traced back thousands of years before the creation of a county.

Jennings and Kruse (2009) conclude that although there were settlements prior to the Norse arrival "there is no evidence from the onomasticon that the inhabitants of these settlements ever existed".

The odds are high, however, that there will be settlements favorable to the company.

Since the domestication of the dog predates agriculture, dogs couldn't have wandered into settlements; there were no settlements.

A few miles from where I was sitting there's a settlement called Campione d'Italia.

"There were continued settlements.

There were also settlements from her eight marriages.

After all, before 1967, when there were no settlements, was there peace?

It was so remote that there were no settlements, no electric lights, no roads.