Sentence examples for about a settlement of from inspiring English sources
I was doing a story about a settlement of Chechen refugees in Georgia.
A federal judge raised questions on Thursday about a settlement of more than $600 million between the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors and securities regulators to resolve insider-trading accusations, expressing specific concerns over a provision that allows SAC to avoid admitting that it did anything wrong.
"Rouhani was plainly anxious to bring about a settlement of the long-running conflict between Iran and the West," Mr Straw said.
Indeed, Erasmus was involved in a quiet effort to bring about a settlement of the crisis through mediation among the ruling German princes when they met with the newly elected Emperor Charles V at Cologne in November 1519.
Yet the conclusion of such an episode would be that the use of force had brought about a settlement of the dispute but not necessarily that it had resolved the ethical disagreement.
The formation of a government in Bangladesh by the Awami League brought about new hopes for a settlement of the Farakka issue.
"Only a small chunk of the pyramid, which stood about 65 feet tall and was the center of a settlement of about 40,000 people in 250 B.C., remains after backhoes and bulldozers began removing the limestone slabs with which it was built," as CNN put it.
He presided over a settlement of about 18 families reached by a dirt track near the town of Bergholz.
The very fact of the visit, Wang emphasized, was important because it sent a signal to the DPRK that the United States was serious about negotiating a settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue.
The increase largely reflected one-time gains from the sale of its half-interest in the cable network Comedy Central for about $1.2 billion and a settlement of a lawsuit against Microsoft for a payment of about $750 million.
It was coming up in the U.N., brought by the Greeks every year.... [The U.S. was] trying to, of course, bring about a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus problem that would secure our military concerns in the area and not upset Turkey too much.
