Sentence examples for failed settlement from inspiring English sources

But, just like the failed settlement in Washington, it can be understood only against the background of the wider tobacco war.

Before him, Peter Rawlins was forced out because the exchange had squandered millions of pounds on Taurus, a failed settlement system.

After five painful years, punctuated by three controversial, failed settlement attempts between Google and former competition chief Joaquín Almunia, the case shifted up a gear this April.

After more than three years of litigation, repeated courtroom setbacks and failed settlement talks, Microsoft is apparently on the verge of emerging largely successful from its long antitrust battle.

Federal Judge's Decision Means Shutdown Of BlackBerry Devices Could Still Be Ordered Research In Motion moved closer to a showdown with NTP, a patent holding company, after a court dismissed R.I.M.'s request to impose a failed settlement agreement between the two companies.

And now, after many months of failed settlement negotiations and pre-trial meetings, both sides are getting their day in court.

In a muted reprise of last year's ultimately failed tobacco settlement, state officials today unveiled a $206 billion proposal to end state lawsuits against cigarette makers over the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses.

Archeologists have since determined that the Western Settlement failed around the year 1400 and the Eastern Settlement a few decades later.

Efforts to reach an amicable settlement failed yesterday afternoon.

The attempt failed, and the settlement, named Victoria, survived only from 1838 until 1849.

Le Monde, in an editorial, said the latest settlement failed, "because the planned transaction excluded the businessman, François Pinault".