Sentence examples for characterized settlement from inspiring English sources

We characterized settlement deforestation rate (∼220 ha/year) along the nearby IOH for a relative comparison to mining deforestation rate (1915 ha/year); the very different rates of change provide some perspective for this area in terms of drivers of land use change for this time period.

ChoicePoint characterized the settlement as "fair and reasonable".

A lawyer for the city characterized the settlement as a culmination of efforts to improve care for the children.

Governor Whitman has characterized the settlement with the Justice Department as little more than a formal endorsement of the state police reform plan she proposed early this year.

Mr. Nocera unfairly characterized the settlement agreement that BP entered into last year with the Plaintiffs Steering Committeee, which represents individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 gulf oil spill.

"Pretty soft," is how Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, characterized the settlement in an interview on Friday.

The intertwining of vengeance, mass slaughter and slavery with religious zeal that characterized European settlement of the Americas has often been overlooked or minimized in histories of the period.

Despite the short-term costs, a negligible amount for a company with about $20 billion in sales last year, Coke officials and plaintiffs' lawyers characterized the settlement as a "business necessity," particularly because minorities in the United States drink a disproportionate share of its sodas.

But Tyson Slocum, the director of the activist group Public Citizen's "Energy Program," characterized the settlement -- which requires the payment over five years of just a fifth of the company's 2011 profits -- as "a pathetic slap on the wrist" for what he called "the largest corporate crime in U.S. history".

All of this begs the question: will the Netanyahu government recognize that its policy on the settlements has set the stage for further escalation of violent confrontations, as Secretary John Kerry recently characterized the settlements as "illegitimate" and warned of the potential eruption of a third Intifada?

A lawyer for the opera, Michael W. Brennan, characterized the settlements reached this year as "substantial" but said the amount was confidential.