Sentence examples for a form of settlement from inspiring English sources

The unusual step of issuing a statement of that sort is a form of settlement and invites the court to strike out the case.

Many commentators have jumped on the idea that, but for these kinds of "payoffs" (which are really a form of legal settlement, under an explicit or implicit threat to sue or to go public), the serial abuse would have been exposed and addressed sooner.

It was a form of terrorism: by discouraging settlement of Missouri, he thought to preserve its southern character.

Compromise-related responses imply recognizing and attempting to accommodate competing demands but not at their full strength; this would entail finding a middle ground in the form of settlement or balance (Jay 2013; Smith and Lewis 2011).

The clash came amid international attempts to forge some form of settlement in Ukraine to prevent a slide into a civil war that could have dramatic consequences for the whole region.

The countryside throughout the Galilee region of northern Israel is dotted with a form of segregated exurb, the "community settlement".

Since only a rightwing president would be seen as legitimised to finalize some form of settlement, the current government is left with no option other than to wait and see if Eta goes under.

Although Sharples states that developed hill forts such as Maiden Castle are not towns and cannot be considered truly urban because they are so closely related to agriculture and storage, Cunliffe and fellow-archaeologists Mark Corney and Andrew Payne describe developed hill forts as "town-like settlements", a form of proto-urbanism.

Equity swaps of this size specifying this form of settlement have to be disclosed to Consob.

Small villages are the predominant form of settlement in the Hunsrück.

Although modern historians do not exclude the possibility that during the Roman period some form of settlement existed at the mouth of the Amstel River, no evidence of one has ever been found.