(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
(2) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(3) The Civil Administration, the Israeli governing body in the West Bank, said the settlers had failed to obtain the required permit to purchase property in the occupied territory, and were therefore ordered to evacuate the house.
(4) The bill would legalise nearly 4,000 settler homes built on private Palestinian land, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now.
(5) Settler youths are rarely held in detention before trial and have access to superior legal representation.
(6) Only the Abu Aishes and another family remain on his street, alongside new settler apartment blocks and portable buildings.
(7) Since the mid-90s, settlers have established dozens of outposts to prevent the transfer of land to the Palestinians.
(8) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(9) Humanitarian settlers also benefit the wider community through developing and maintaining economic linkages with their origin countries.
(10) The ascendancy from the 70s onwards of the religious settler movement in Israel , and the rise of Hamas and other overtly Islamist Palestinian movements in the late 80s, were clear signs not only of the weakening of secular forces in both societies, but that the language of the conflict was returning to its roots.
(11) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
(12) For more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in more than 200 locations in the West Bank, the Israeli military is obliged to intervene if there is retaliatory Palestinian violence.
(13) Settlers accepted the deal at a vote in Amona’s synagogue on Sunday.
(14) Assam, a tea-growing Indian state that borders Bhutan and Bangladesh, has a long history of often violent land disputes between the indigenous Bodo tribes, Muslim settlers and the Adivasi community.
(15) The Israeli authorities are accused of structuring their security operations to minimise the cost to the settlers of the campaign of harassment, intimidation and violence.
(16) The defence minister, Ehud Barak, should resign, says David Ha'ivri of the Shomron Liaison Office, a regional settlers' body.
(17) In a boost to the settlers, Netanyahu demanded the eviction be delayed to allow an investigation, for which no timeframe was given.
(18) Cooke reflects that: "When Gove talks about school discipline, he is talking to Settlers.
(19) Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, has had little to show his people: with more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the continued expansion of settlements, there are growing doubts over the viability of a two-state solution.
(20) Referring to the rise in tensions, Barghouti writes: “The escalation did not start with the killing of two Israeli settlers,” referring to the shooting of a husband and wife in front of their children.
Uninhabited
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This is uninhabited, except for scientists, is surrounded by rich fisheries and is the subject of a longstanding dispute.
(2) Japan already controls the uninhabited islands, which it refers to as the Senkaku and China calls the Diaoyu, but announced plans to buy them from their private owners this week .
(3) Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas.
(4) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
(5) • Laziomar runs regular ferries from Terracina and Formia Santo Stefano Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Silvia Marchetti Today this jet-black rock, the tiniest of the Pontines, is uninhabited, but until 1965 thousands of criminals, mafiosi and anarchists were jailed and tortured here.
(6) The two countries are locked in a long-running territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea , known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and Senkakus to the Japanese, and China complains Japan has failed to fully atone for its brutality in the second world war.
(7) China’s first space lab was most likely to land in the ocean or in an uninhabited area, Dorman admitted.
(8) Davies kept in play the less polluting options for Heathrow, though a northwest runway would render Cameron's old school, Eton , almost uninhabitable.
(9) Of the three reserves proposed by the coalition of conservationists, the least likely is one around the uninhabited South Sandwich islands because of its proximity to the Falklands.
(10) Government workers with machetes cleared fallen trees from streets while a vast number of uninhabitable houses prompted residents to erect makeshift shelters.
(11) But the hostile body-language between the two men suggest tensions still run deep and not just because disputed claims about uninhabited islands in the east China sea.
(12) China described Japan's decision to buy three of the uninhabited islets, which are thought to be surrounded by huge deposits of natural gas , as a violation of its sovereignty.
(13) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
(14) China was backed strongly by the G77 group of 130 countries and the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), made up of Caribbean and Pacific countries which expect to be made uninhabitable in the next few generations if a strong climate agreement is not secured.
(15) Zembra is an uninhabited, hardly accessible island, north of the bay of Tunis and is a part of a large, protected zone of natural reserve.
(16) The area is part of a chain of uninhabited barrier islands in the Breton national wildlife refuge.
(17) "Satellites have transformed our knowledge of what is happening to these distant and uninhabited parts of the planet.
(18) The residents were forced to abandon their homes in the hours after the tsunami on 11 March; those living closest to the plant have been told their former neighbourhoods could remain uninhabitable for decades .
(19) But the sale of the house in Chester was held up for several months by a freak accident, a burst water main under the foundations which flooded the ground floor and made it uninhabitable.
(20) Countries can acquire territory by discovering uninhabited land, signing a treaty – as with Khrushchev’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 – or occupying an area peacefully over a long period of time.