Sentence examples for authority to settle from inspiring English sources

Lawyers are required to have the authority to settle.

Quarrels can turn into feuds for lack of a higher authority to settle them.

Only rarely have the nation states given institutions the authority to settle disagreements without their consent.

And there is no central authority to settle, forever, which is empirically the best or greatest game.

Instead, the agency could have the authority to settle disagreements on major issues among national financial supervisors, who oversee the setting of some benchmarks.

"I ask them to show me some authority to settle, and they don't have an ability to show that," Ms. Charney said.

In 2014, Bank of America paid $16.7bn to US authorities to settle similar charges.

The bank agreed this year to pay $612 million to British and American authorities to settle accusations of rate-rigging.

Barclays last month agreed to pay $453m to British and US authorities to settle allegations that it manipulated Libor.

He said some people had approached the tax authorities to settle their affairs before action was taken.

For instance, the bank agreed to a $780 million fine in 2009 with the U.S. authorities to settle charges that it had helped its American clients to hide funds.