The phrase "an initial settlement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the first agreement or arrangement made in a negotiation or dispute resolution context.
Example: "After several rounds of discussions, the parties finally reached an initial settlement that both sides could agree upon."
Alternatives: "a preliminary agreement" or "a first arrangement".
"It is fair in amount; it is fair in procedure," said Judge Hellerstein, who had rejected an initial settlement reached by the parties last March as not offering enough money to 9/11 workers.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir declared the war in Darfur over on Wednesday, after reaching an initial settlement with the Justice and Equality Movement, Darfur's most powerful rebel group.
In April the company settled two lawsuits over whether or not Uber drivers were legally employees at an initial settlement of $84m with the possibility of another payment of $16m; on settling those suits, the company made sure to include the condition that it would be allowed to continue to classify its drivers as independent contractors.
Yet the troubles didn't end there: after an initial settlement with tax authorities in 2011, Lucia, Alberto Giovanni, and mother Massimiliana were again accused of tax evasion by Italian authorities in 2013 to the tune of $160 million, which was added to a new investigation regarding the $1.6 billion that was previously returned.
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg rejected an initial settlement proposal on August 17 after questioning why the agreement provided no cash for Facebook users.
The sign off comes after Chhabria rejected an initial settlement offer in April of $12.5 million, saying that it "shortchanged" drivers.
The initial settlement was more a charnel house than a refuge, as ill-supplied immigrants succumbed to disease.
After a brief synopsis of the initial settlement of the islands and their 1778 "discovery" by Capt.
The values of β decreased logarithmically with increasing settlement, showing a marked decrease within the initial settlement range.
(Lyft faces a similar lawsuit that it also is trying to settle; a federal judge rejected the initial settlement offer of $12.25 million, saying it was too low).
Our goal is to provide a comprehensive model for the initial settlement of the Americas that generates new testable hypotheses and has high predictive power for the inclusion of new datasets.
