Settlement in example sentence

In Syria, the only diplomatic process is in the hands of the courageous, if beleaguered, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has understood – better than many analysts of this latest international outrage – that any lasting political settlement must not be a triumph of one side or the other.

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In the same way in which ethnic conflict and civil war are not natural but man-made disasters, their prevention and settlement does not happen automatically either.

Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.

And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement.

So our concept is really this back-to-the-future concept, harnessing the intelligence of that land settlement pattern.

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