Sentence examples for a modest settlement from inspiring English sources

She received a modest settlement from each ex.

The Labour Party produced a modest settlement plan, mostly for a strategic presence to secure the new eastern border.

A modest settlement of squat houses, cheap hotels and restaurants, Bolans has goats and chickens wandering in its the streets.

"We have to look at this as being a modest settlement even thought the number itself, the $26 billion, is an eye-popping number," said Ms. Porter.

"I think everybody decided enough is enough," said James Janowitz, Ms. Love's attorney, about the January decision to postpone the trial and reach what he described as a modest settlement that extends payments through 2014.

As most of our attention is focused on the debt-ceiling crisis, another issue is coming to a head: whether prosecutors will rush to let banks off the hook for mortgage abuses in return for a modest settlement, without having done anything like a complete investigation.

"This is a very modest settlement," Mr. Rivera said.

And the principle is still operating right now, as federal officials press state attorneys general to accept a very modest settlement from banks that engaged in abusive mortgage practices.

As a result, the company was required to contact nearly1,000 qualified applicants who had been denied employment and either offer them a job or a portion of the modest settlement mandated by the government.

To date, however, the rating agencies are undefeated in court, and aside from one modest settlement in a case 10 years ago, no one has forced them to hand over any money.

Without admitting any wrongdoing, Medco has agreed to pay a modest cash settlement and, more important, to change its business practices.