Sentence examples for decent settlement from inspiring English sources

The world's financial institutions are poised to take remedial action, if a decent settlement takes shape.

Reversing this trend is now key to winning a decent settlement in the next licence fee negotiations and, critically, its next charter.

Whoever wins, the prospects for a decent settlement for the Tamils, most of whom shunned the Tigers but nurture legitimate grievances, seem remote.The danger to Mr Rajapaksa does not stem from Sinhalese voters' sympathy for foreign criticism of him.

Given the tangled mess of responsibilities, foreign countries would be expected to stump up.At present, though, even a decent settlement over the land, let alone the refugees, looks a very long way away.

"[However] I believe that the outcome of these talks, given the climate which the BBC and other public bodies face today, represents a decent settlement for BBC staff and is one that would not been have been achieved without the enduring support of our members and their local representatives".

The Palestinians, having thrown away the chance of a half-decent settlement when Israel was under Ehud Barak, are resisting being crushed in the only way they now see open to them.

There was a dignified, decent, democratic settlement that allowed the natural warmth of a neighbourly relationship to come fully to the surface.

During the divorce proceedings, Maryann's lawyer said — this both haunts me and to some degree taints my enjoyment of Carver's stories — that without a decent court settlement, Maryann Burk Carver's post-divorce life would be "like a bag of doorknobs that wouldn't open any doors".

Despite spending the last month busing to every decent-sized settlement in Iowa (and many indecently small ones, too), Perry's campaign never took off.

But once you start promoting commissioning and production policies in terms of job creation and economic impact - as both the BBC and Channel 4 do - you run the risk of being pulled hither and thither in order to maintain the political consensus (and a decent licence fee settlement).

"I felt that whatever applied to this community should apply to all communities in Los Angeles," said Perry, who called the settlement a "decent outcome for now". But Perry said she wants to create a new anti-camping ordinance that could withstand a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union, which helped argue the case against the ban.