It usually is used when there is insufficient evidence to ensure successful prosecution or when there has been a settlement between the parties out of court.
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright told Syrian and Egyptian officials today that the Clinton administration was willing to push once more for peace talks between Damascus and Israel, but that its main goal in its remaining months in office was a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
A8 Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright told Syrian and Egyptian officials in Cairo that the Clinton administration was willing to push again for peace talks between Damascus and Israel, but that its main goal was a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
The 1998 agreement that set up the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly was a settlement between the pro-British Protestant majority and the pro-Irish Catholic minority to apportion authority among them and end more than three decades of sectarian violence that claimed more than 3,600 lives.
Efrat, for example, is a settlement between Jerusalem and Hebron, that is heavily concentrated with American settlers.
"The Oslo agreement is the only base for reaching a settlement between Palestinians and Israel," he declared, adding that had the Labor government not lost the 1996 election, there would already be a settlement.
Lost in the recent swirl of negative economic data and news of rising home foreclosures was a settlement last month between the Department of Justice and the National Association of Realtors that will change the way you buy your next home.
"There was a settlement that was reached between the parties and we... decided to exercise discretion and not proceed with the matter.
The Mise of Lewes was a settlement made on 14 May 1264 between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons, led by Simon de Montfort.
There are opportunities opening for what I have said should be a new settlement between Britain and Europe and there will be opportunities to seek that new settlement.It is a state of mind that is worrying liberal-minded allies of Britain.
