Sentence examples for gathering to settle the from inspiring English sources

Most are concerned with moral problems and social responsibility in a middle-class setting like his Les Destinées sentimentales about a rebellious young man reluctantly taking over the family's prestigious porcelain factory in the 1920s, and Summer Hours, the tale of siblings and their elderly mother gathering to settle the estate of a recently deceased painter.

On the evening your correspondent called on him, he had just returned from a huge Pushtun tribal gathering to settle a blood-money claim against his tribe.

For decades, archeologists have yearned to understand the origin of agriculture and what actions may have sparked humans to transition from hunting and gathering to settling and farming, a period historians call the Neolithic Revolution.

But she said non-violent evictions are justified, as forest dwellers have transitioned from low-impact hunting and gathering to settled farming and construction of larger, more permanent housing, which is illegal in national forests.

The meet's most idiosyncratic event involved professional athletes from five different sports — football, baseball, basketball, soccer and bobsledding — gathering on the track to settle the type of debate that tends to exist only in the realm of hypotheticals conceived and debated by sports fans after a couple of rounds of beer.

Carson conspicuously declined to settle the question.

Citigroup has agreed to settle the case.

Barclays paid $450 million to settle the charges.

And he wants to settle the score".

How to settle the matter?

Nortel paid $35 million to settle the charges.