The phrase "able to settle a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability to resolve or finalize a particular issue or matter.
Example: "The mediator was able to settle a long-standing dispute between the two parties."
Alternatives: "capable of resolving a" or "able to resolve a".
Perhaps she was able to settle a few old scores too!" The singer joked: "I haven't been invited to the Commons yet.
Lockheed Martin, the largest United States military contractor, terminated its agreement to buy the Titan Corporation yesterday because Titan has not been able to settle a criminal investigation.
That Mr. Bloomberg was able to settle a long term street fight in a matter of months is in keeping with the administration's penchant for forming cozy relationships -- at least at the outset -- with some of Mr. Giuliani's adversaries.
Assad Ismail, a local council president in Sadiya, a village along the disputed territories northeast of Baghdad, said that only the Americans were able to settle a recent dispute that flared when Iraqi soldiers trying to restrict the movement of insurgents closed off local farmers' access to their date palms, tomatoes and peanuts.
At a news conference yesterday in Washington, Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said the union was continuing preparations for a strike, adding, "We've been able to settle a large number of issues, mostly the smaller issues, but the larger issues of pay and pension remain unresolved".
If any such argument could ever be made to work then we might be able to settle a wide range of difficult issues in normative philosophy without simply appealing to first-order intuitions about cases which so often seems to lead to philosophical stalemate.
The reconciling strategy is able to settle an agreement between the project owner and the subcontractor.
Na, who has not been able to settle into a new setup that he implemented a year ago, takes a waggle and a half waggle, over and over, until he feels comfortable making a full swing.
With the help of his wife, Ecarius was able to settle into a skilled trade job with General Motors, a position he held until age 58, when, he says, he became overwhelmed by the computers at work.
Of course, England have not been able to settle on a centre pairing of their own for more than a decade, and while Jones is keen to see Henry Slade and Manu Tuilagi in tandem, neither the young playmaker from Exeter nor the human bowling ball from Leicester are currently available to him.
We were finally able to settle on a weekly night on Tuesdays, and we started an event, Velvet Leather, in early to mid-December.
