The phrase "a method of settling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing approaches or techniques for resolving disputes, issues, or differences.
Example: "The committee proposed a method of settling the ongoing disagreements between the two parties."
Alternatives: "a way to resolve" or "a technique for addressing".
The bill of exchange originated as a method of settling accounts in international trade.
The law says that if a state has provided "by laws enacted prior to" Election Day, a method of settling "any controversy or contest" concerning the appointment of electors, the determination made according to those laws shall not be subject to challenge in Congress.
Unfortunately, the more police clamp down on knives and guns, the more highly corrosive chemicals will be used as a method of settling disputes, spreading fear, and, in the most cowardly way possible, making a mark.
Unfortunately the more police clamp down on knives and guns, the more highly corrosive chemicals will be used as a method of settling disputes, spreading fear and, in the most cowardly way possible, making your mark.
The official described such an arrangement as a tribal method of settling scores and meant to ensure that the president saved face.
Putin's move into Crimea suggests a historic account unsettled, and a military method of settling it that Obama has called out of place in this century.
Car bombs are a favored method of settling scores.
Arbitration is also mentioned as a proper method of settling disputes between countries in the Charter of the United Nations, as it was in the Covenant of the League of Nations.
And if patents are infringed, judges should favour monetary penalties over injunctions that ban the sale of offending products and thereby reduce consumer choice.Pinch and bloomA world of fewer but more robust patents, combined with a more efficient method of settling disputes, would not just serve the interests of the public but also help innovators like Apple.
In rhetoric and grammar, analogy was the method of settling a doubt about a word's form by appeal to a similar and more certain case.
And even though it was a dramatic conclusion (with United winning after Chelsea's captain John Terry slipped on the wet surface while taking what would have been the clinching kick and opening the door for United to win three rounds later), we can't think of a more unjust and unsatisfying method of settling things short of flipping a coin.
