0 an agreement -- forlig
The two sides have at last reached a settlement.
1 a small community -- bosættelse; -bosættelse
a farming settlement.
In fact, the cosmopolitan and patriarchal character of the new settlements increasingly challenged the more formal political constructions inherited from an ancient past.
The same cultural categories that legitimised the welfare settlements of the past are reflected in the heated welfare debates of today.
The courts later adopted a less restrictive concept of locality, recognising that settlements might embrace more than one parish.
In these areas it is quite common for disagreements between individuals from the two groups to degenerate into ethnic conflicts engulfing several settlements.
If refugees were free to live outside settlements, and were offered appropriate supportive assistance there, their capacity for developmental progress might be expected to increase.
Neighbouring villages would typically share a common grazing area to prevent stock rustlers from attacking boys caring for livestock far from the settlements.
In addition, membership in security-oriented organizations reduces the length of rivalry as such organizations provide instruments for the peaceful negotiation of settlements.
The opportunities to monopolize trade flows are influenced by the number of alternative routes that have to be controlled and the distribution of settlements.
