Sentence examples for creative settlement from inspiring English sources
In some cases, creative settlement terms have included giving up equity in the company, as well as graduated licensing fees.
Class-action lawyers call these creative uses of settlement money "cy pres," from the French expression "cy pres comme possible," or "as near as possible".
Other appeals courts have been more skeptical of creative class-action settlements.
With Apple's battery recall, settlement with Creative Technologies and recent stock option irregularities, it would appear that Apple is in a rough spot.
The federal government must be more aggressive in its enforcement of the federal tobacco settlement, more creative in the remedies it seeks, and more effective in its regulation of all tobacco and nicotine products – beginning with the FDA accepting responsibility for its failed regulatory strategy so far.
One stereotype of a mediator is someone who gently absorbs parties' anger, refocuses them on their interests, and creatively finds common ground for a settlement (see also, creative problem-solving approach).
In one of the most creative and ambitious environmental enforcement settlements in U.S. history, we are addressing the immediate pollution issue VW caused and, at the same time, setting a new precedent for long term benefits that can be achieved under the Clean Air Act.
It is clear that the UK needs a new economic settlement and investment in the creative economy will be an important part of that.
The authors of the present study aim to highlight the territorial distribution of creative industries at the level of national settlement network and the way that the pattern of distribution is influenced by the territorial systems specificities.
In the past, new urban definitions were introduced when the human settlement pattern changed and some creative geographer eventually recognized (or devised) the new situation.
Creative could use some of its $100 million settlement with Apple to forge some kind of working relationship between Zen music and video players and Macs and perhaps even iTunes.
