Sentence examples for draft a settlement from inspiring English sources

Last year the arbitrator, a retired California state judge named Alexander H. Williams III, decided to draft a settlement without him, ruling that since Mr. Sciacca had not participated in the negotiations, he had "no ownership or financial interest in the collection".

After receiving the draft complaint, it continues, Goguen instructed her to fire her attorney and used his attorneys instead to draft a settlement agreement that arranged for him to pay $40 million to Baptiste in four equal payments.

Moreover, mediation offers an opportunity for couples to draft a settlement agreement that matches their own family lifestyle and needs, rather than have a court impose a final judgment that may be more onerous and burdensome.

The United Nations envoy to the negotiations, Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, has been drafting a settlement, but it is being kept secret.

African Union negotiators drafted a settlement that would include some wealth- and power-sharing and presented it at the talks on Tuesday.

In drafting a settlement of securities fraud charges, companies frequently seek the "neither admit nor deny" language for fear that their acknowledgment of the conduct could be used against them in shareholder lawsuits seeking damages.

Single-text negotiating document: One person drafts a settlement document that satisfies the majority of interests and resolves the conflict.

"This is a reversal of three hard years of work by an awful lot of people, and it didn't have to end up like this," said Richard Scruggs, a lawyer from Pascagoula, Miss., who helped draft a $368.5 billion settlement between cigarette makers and state attorneys general that would have permitted F.D.A. regulation.

As the senior negotiators from six world powers and Iran sat down in Vienna this week to try to draft a comprehensive nuclear settlement, the American delegation has sought to damp down expectations.

In 1548, following Charles V's victory over the Protestants in his effort to unify the Holy Roman Empire, Agricola was selected by the emperor as one of three theologians to draft a provisional religious settlement between Protestants and Roman Catholics, a document that became known as the Augsburg Interim.

In an email Der Spiegel said was written by Infantino to City's chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, Infantino allegedly describes drafting a possible settlement, saying: "You will see that I've sometimes chosen a wording which 'looks' more 'strong,'" before signing off with the message "Let's be positive!" Infantino was then Uefa's general secretary – and is now the president of Fifa.