settlements

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He changed the United States position on Israeli settlements, for example, no longer holding to the line taken by every other president before him, that the settlements were an obstacle to peace.

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  1. noun The act or process of settling.
  2. noun Establishment, as of a person in a business or of people in a new region.
  3. noun A newly colonized region.
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  • Only the isolation of a woman or man who chooses to live outside the settlements is absolute. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
  • The distinction sometimes made between "illegal" outposts and the other settlements is a propaganda ploy designed to obscure this simple truth. —  Beautiful Horizons
  • However, the FTC argues that the settlements are anticompetitive and hurt consumers by clogging the pipeline for cost-saving drugs. —  Manufacturing.net Headline News
  • Please help me to understand why the settlements are there and what can be done about them. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • He changed the United States position on Israeli settlements, for example, no longer holding to the line taken by every other president before him, that the settlements were an obstacle to peace. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
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