Sentence examples for impose a settlement from inspiring English sources

But the United States cannot force the two sides to agree, far less impose a settlement.

If the two sides disagree with the mediator's proposal, the court will impose a settlement.

So the outside world should impose a settlement but not dictate the future of Syria.

Congress could intervene to postpone a strike, order arbitration or impose a settlement.

Although it presented itself as an honest broker, the Clinton administration had decided to impose a settlement in Bosnia.

Only America, after all, had the power, they still believed, to impose a settlement of their conflict on Ariel Sharon.

So far, there seems to be little appetite at the highest levels of the administration for Mr. Ross's approach and no interest at all in Mr. Brzezinski's call to impose an settlement, although the State Department's Middle East experts have long pressed for a more political element to negotiations on security.

To the Palestinians it looks as though the west is watching as Israel imposes a settlement on its own terms.

In May 1913 the great powers imposed a settlement; Macedonia was partitioned among the Balkan states, Crete was granted to Greece, and Albania was given its independence.

Years hence a judge would have imposed a settlement, and the judiciary would have taken the blame for any faults in the outcome.

On the other hand, the ministers held back from imposing a settlement on the Macedonian government for fear of encouraging a takeover there by hard-liners.