Sentence examples for could not have settled from inspiring English sources

In fact, he could not have settled the case in this way, because neither the lawyers for Willowbrook nor the federal judge who sat on the case would have allowed it.

It's hard to believe that this time he couldn't have settled upon something a bit more ambitious than a reversion to the method he tested to destruction a decade ago with Ali G Indahouse.

In the case of the settlement with JPMorgan, the settlement was so perfectly worded to avoid suggesting any wrongdoing that could lead to follow-on suits from investors that "I would infer that they couldn't have settled this case if you made it about misleading statements," Mr. Coffee said.

I think he shouldn't have settled; personally I think he shouldn't have settled.

Lagat could not have been happier for Guerrouj, despite settling for a silver medal.

Couldn't NBC have settled their late night wars by giving Meet The Press to Conan O'Brien?

What they could not have, he insisted, is the right to settle the territory's future.

And Liverpool could not have asked for a better start to settle any nerves as they went ahead after just four minutes with the Hungarians having barely touched the ball.

Honestly, he could not have been nicer, I couldn't have been more passive-aggressively unpleasant, and we settled in for our 10-hour trip, cheek-by-jowl.

If Suleimani couldn't have the Basij, he settled for the next best thing: Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani, the Basij's former deputy commander.

When we didn't create chances we didn't put them away which could have settled us down.