Sentence examples for close to settlement from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hess said yesterday that the lawsuit had been "close to settlement until this hiccup on Monday".

[C4.] Bristol-Myers Close to Settlement Bristol-Myers Squibb appears close to settling an investigation involving its efforts to stop other companies from selling generic versions of its anxiety treatment, BuSpar.

The biggest stumbling block has been an anti-doping agreement to satisfy the International Baseball Federation and other countries that would compete, and that issue is very close to settlement.

And those lawsuits don't appear to be close to settlement – some people close to Skype saw that there is a good chance the cases will actually end up being tried in a court.

In order to get a more realistic estimation, one has to take a closer look on these patches in order to eliminate those ones that in fact are not qualified for energy production due to reasons like being located in a preservation area, being close to settlement areas, having improper zoning restrictions, and other reasons.

Otherwise, they were either stall-fed or released into areas close to settlements, because they were very expensive.

The lack of assets due to the economic crisis and the disruption of seasonal migration patterns led to an overexploitation of easily, and oftentimes even openly, accessible winter, spring, and autumn pastures that were predominantly located close to settlements.

Landscape polarization of land-use intensity has increased with anthropogenic processes operating only on certain locations close to settlements and large parts of the island loosing their productivist profile.

They are usually found close to settlements (whose timber frames are much less well-preserved) and may have been for storing perishable agricultural products.

At first New France was to be governed by the Royal Proclamation (October 7, 1763), which declared the territory between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi to be Indian territory and closed to settlement until the Indians there could be subdued.

Notably, sites closer to settlement community (Teshie Township, e.g. S1, S2, S3 and S4) and the hospitality industries (i.e. dotted hotels, e.g. S7) appeared to be relatively more contaminated.