He was a wealthy British investor who supported the settlement of Roanoke Island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Polk had wanted a peaceful settlement of the differences with Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Residents of the West Bank settlement of Kedumim threw eggs at inspectors and clashed with police who came to enforce the construction freeze.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Chanie Luz lives in the West Bank settlement of Bethel near the Palestinian-ruled city of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

State Department Acting Spokesman Robert Wood said Clinton,in her calls to the Pakistani leadership on Saturday, urged a non-violent settlement of the confrontation with the opposition and said that there should be no impediments to peaceful, democratic assembly.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

There is but one way. A full and final settlement, with justice,of all the questions disputed by the two sections.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

But last October, Google reached a one hundred twenty-five million dollar legal settlement to also make parts of some copyrighted books available.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

You had better all you people of the South prepare yourselves for a settlement sooner than you are prepared for it.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The men who had forced Luke Short out of town decided to negotiate a settlement.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The settlement is the nation's largest ever in a case of health care fraud.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

The settlement was named Baltimore Town in honor of Lord Baltimore of England.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

"Israelis have facilitated greater freedom of movement for the Palestinians, and have discussed important steps to restrain settlement activity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"Israel,the Israeli government, continues its defiance of the international community, the American administration's calls to stop settlement activities including natural growth,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Mr.Obama called for the creation of a Palestinian state and condemned Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

Mr.Obama has lost popularity in Israel because of American pressure to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The Palestinians have demanded a complete freeze on settlement expansion before returning to negotiations and reject Israel's offer of a partial freeze.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

"We've called for a total cessation of all new settlement building for a period of 10 months,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

"He knows that this suspension of settlement construction is difficult, that it is not easy for anyone;

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

An aide to President Abbas accused the Obama administration of backtracking on its earlier promises to push for a freeze on settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But instead of accepting the proposed halt in settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian leaders rejected the peace offering, as "nothing new".

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

It is part of an historic triangle that includes the site of the 1607 Jamestown settlement and the Yorktown battlefield, where the Revolutionary War ended.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

The delegation of 25 congressmen from the Republican Party blasted the Obama administration for pressuring Israel to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06