8 sentences with 'settlement'
Example sentences and phrases with the word settlement and other words derived from it.
• « Much of the lead emitted falls on the settlement that produces it, but a significant fraction is transported to distant regions. Thus there are "haloes" of pollution extending several hundred kilometres around the stations and along the raid axes. »
• « Even in a settlement as old as Çatal Höyük, there were craftsmen, builders, and perhaps most interestingly, priests. »
• « In the ruins of the settlement archaeologists have found dozens of shrines to ancient gods and evidence that there was a priesthood. »
• « One theory about the origins of large-scale settlement is that when enough villages came together to work on these hydrological systems, they needed some form of leadership to direct the efforts, leading to systems of governance and administration. »
• « With such a high demand, any neighbouring settlement was a potential source of slaves, and slavery was therefore an integral part of the Mediterranean economy. »
• « Likewise, Germania was supposed to be too cold, too wet and too infertile to support organised agriculture and settlement. »
• « Outside Russia, the most important Viking settlement in terms of its historical impact was Normandy in what is now northern France, a kingdom that would go on centuries later to conquer England itself. »
• « This series of events became known as the Glorious Revolution - "glorious" because it was bloodless and resulted in a political settlement that finally ended most of a century of conflict. »