The phrase "a general settlement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to legal agreements, financial arrangements, or conflict resolutions where a broad or overall agreement is being discussed.
Example: "The parties involved reached a general settlement that addressed all outstanding issues and concerns."
Alternatives: "a comprehensive agreement" or "an overall resolution".
This was followed by a general settlement in 1731 at the Treaty of Vienna.
Though the Spaniards raised their siege at Casale, much remained to be done in order to bring about a general settlement.
But Dr. de la Fuente decided not to take back any buildings without a general settlement, and radical strikers reoccupied the high school.
"If we got to the point of discussing the terms of a general settlement, and found we could obtain terms which did not postulate the destruction of our independence, we should be foolish if we did not accept them," Halifax said bluntly.
Merck may yet regret not seeking a general settlement—or, if there are many more verdicts like last week's, it may do so after all.Merck's woes should reinforce the recent trend in the drug industry to again put good science before marketing, and in particular to be full, frank and fast in disclosing the results of drug trials, and especially evidence of problems.
But the calculation in Damascus is clearly that, as former information minister Adnan Omran put it, "Bush will realise that the neo-conservatives are leading him to his own perdition" and that the traditional, pragmatic strain in US Middle East diplomacy will reassert itself: the one that sees Syria as a vital interlocutor in the quest for a general settlement.
Therefore, Ap-otx2 is responsive to not only attractive odours for settlement, but also repulsive ones and may be involved in a general settlement-odour imprinting response.
That volatile mix complicated the negotiations that ended on Friday with the announcement of a sweeping general settlement to reform Wall Street's research practices and change the way new stock offerings are distributed.
The general settlement fund, an intergovernmental organisation set up to recommend the return of Nazi-looted property from the state to its former owners or their heirs, did not respond to the Guardian's request for a statement.
Their brilliant victories over the Spanish and imperial troops helped bring about the Peace of Westphalia (October 1648), a general European settlement that established peace in Germany.
At the time of the attorney general settlement, Quadrangle was unsparing in distancing itself from Mr. Rattner.
