Sentence examples for up the settlements from inspiring English sources

Will it be able to give up the settlements and make peace?

Then, he said, Israelis would be willing to give up the settlements.

"The Palestinians don't want to give up the end of the conflict, and Israel doesn't want to give up the settlements".

"No country in the world accepts dictates from other countries about where it is allowed to build and where not," Mr. Ariel said in a statement, referring to international criticism of Israel's continuing efforts to build up the settlements.

Moria Shlomot, the director of Peace Now, said the group was capitalizing on what it sees as growing public belief that Mr. Sharon would rather prolong the conflict than end it, if that meant giving up the settlements.

Each side indulged its worst suspicions about the other: an increasing number of Israelis felt that Arafat had been unmasked as a messianic terrorist who had never really wanted compromise except, perhaps, as a tactic; the Palestinians felt confirmed in their suspicion that Israel had no intention of giving up the settlements or their general dominance.

Purseus intends to harness the banks' own message system, SWIFT, to speed up the settlement of customer payments between banks.

The demand held up the settlement, which was reached only after Mr. Gillman agreed to back down.

But Mr. Sharon, who drew up the settlement plan in Gaza, believes that Israel's grip there has become a liability.

This was originally meant to speed up the settlement of certain kinds of muddled criminal cases so courts could keep up with their dockets.

The day I picked up the settlement check from my lawyer's office my whole body shook as I walked the four blocks to the bank.