Sentence examples for custom of settling from inspiring English sources

Judge Rakoff has also expressed aversion to the agency's custom of settling cases without forcing the defendant to admit wrongdoing.

Among the potential issues that Judge Rakoff could raise during the hearing is the S.E.C.'s custom of settling cases without forcing the defendant to admit culpability.

He made the comments amid intense scrutiny of Downing Street's links with Google, as HM Revenue and Customs was accused of settling for too little.

At age 12, Aisha and her younger sister were given to the family of a Taliban fighter in Oruzgan Province under a tribal custom for settling disputes, known as "baad".

A sigh of settling under the sheets.

But others see signs of settling.

He is constitutionally incapable of settling down.

The floating ANAMMOX granules did not settle, so only the settling velocity of settling ANAMMOX granules was determined.

Roentgenograms revealed three millimeters of settling.

Aisha's uncle had killed a relative of the groom to be, and according to the custom, to settle the blood debt her father gave the two girls to the victim's family.

In Sierra Leone it used to be the custom to settle child abuse cases within the community which often did not consider the rights of the children.