In his landmark speech from Cairo in June, President Obama said there can be no progress toward peace without a halt to settlement construction.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

So we decided Powell should go to the nearest settlement to seek equipment and men to help us with the work.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

He could support the Compromise of Eighteen Fifty and declare it to be the final settlement of the problem.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

All it took to force a negotiated settlement was for these dangerous men to show their faces in Dodge City.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

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

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

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The United States,he said, wanted a settlement which would bring peace and safety to China.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Yet the Mormons continued to work hard to make their settlement a success.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

They said Sherman had no power to make any kind of political settlement.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The final settlement forced China to pay three hundred thirty-three million dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Peace talks were suspended in December and efforts to revive them have bogged down over the issue of Israeli settlement expansion.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"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

The Palestinians under Mr.Abbas are sticking to their demand that Israel freeze settlement construction before a return to negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government's freeze on construction in West Bank communities.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

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

Mitchell will press Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and disputed East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

Peace Now chairman Yariv Openheimer says Israel is trying to fool the United States, which sees settlement expansion as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

and we are working with the settlement community to try to ease the pain involved because we know it is difficult for them,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

U.S.envoy George Mitchell met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but failed to achieve a breakthrough on a halt to Jewish settlement expansion.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

A Palestinian authority spokesman, Abdullah Abdullah, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must commit to a full settlement freeze, not a partial one.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

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

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

The Palestinians have said they will not return to negotiations as long as Israeli settlement expansion continues.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Mitchell said he hopes to end the settlement controversy soon and move on to peace talks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Last week, Mr.Netanyahu offered to halt Israeli settlement construction in exchange for normalization with Arab states.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13