Sentence examples for attempted to settle from inspiring English sources

He next attempted to settle along the southern shores of the Black Sea.

He started to organize his finances, and attempted to settle the numerous lawsuits pending against him across the country.

However, when she recently attempted to settle a £1,621 balance a power cut meant her debit card payment wasn't processed and she missed the deadline.

When Europeans first attempted to settle in North America north of the Rio Grande, their confrontations with Indian cultures were marked by cosmic struggles over environmental conditions, particularly rainfall.

Most historians have simply attempted to settle the question of her creative contributions by recourse to conventional divisions of studio labor (Brownlow 1990, 91; Foster 1998, 317; Slide 1996b, 89).

Several of the companies, Apple and Google among them, attempted to settle the case out of court — offering the tech workers more than three hundred million dollars — but in August a judge ruled that the settlement was too low.

Students must first attempt to settle a grade dispute informally through discussions with the instructor.

The Joint Liaison Committee shall consider the matter immediately and will attempt to settle it within thirty days.

He also played a role in attempting to settle the crisis in the Central African Republic.

This paper attempts to settle a long-standing issue concerning the differences in Markstein numbers measured by different experimental protocols.

The war metaphor suggests opposing sides, both attempting to settle a dispute through violence.