The phrase "a willingness to settle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's readiness to accept a compromise or to agree to a less than ideal situation.
Example: "In negotiations, having a willingness to settle can often lead to a quicker resolution."
Alternatives: "an openness to compromise" or "a readiness to accept".
The executives, Percy Barnevik, above, and Goran Lindahl both signaled a willingness to settle, an ABB spokesman said.
Mr. Almunia "has had no big confrontations with companies since taking office and he's shown a willingness to settle all of the abuse of dominance cases that have come his way," said Nicolas Petit, a law professor at the University of Liège in Belgium.
Mr Cook also said he hated litigation, signalling a willingness to settle patent disputes.
Note the lower indifference points and greater rate of decay for HMMs compared to LMMs indicate a greater willingness to settle for a smaller reward so as to get it immediately, reflecting a reduced ability to delay gratification.
Mr. Yushchenko has taken a combative approach toward Russia, which demonstrated a new willingness to settle disputes by force in Georgia this summer.
There is a new willingness to settle the Iranian nuclear question.
Though their engagement status still appears widely up to conjecture, their career decisions seem to be signaling a possible willingness to settle down too, the Telegraph begrudgingly noted.
Russia's parliament has gone further still, claiming sovereignty over the whole city of Sebastopol.Ukraine would like a trip by Mr Yeltsin to be a signal of Russian willingness to settle the row over Sebastopol, to sign a border treaty alone of Ukraine's neighbours, Russia has not done so and to embrace the reality of Ukrainian statehood.
Hevesi, noting the importance of Citigroup to the financial health of New York, the U.S. and the world, echoed Prince's sentiment, calling the company's willingness to settle a "remarkable decision and farsighted".
What incensed Rakoff was not so much the result -- although that was bad enough -- but the SEC's willingness to settle without a full airing of the facts -- indeed, without any airing of the facts.
None of the story's squishiness come as a real surprise, though the thinness of the material and Mr. Green's apparent willingness to settle for so little do.
