Sentence examples for imposed a settlement from inspiring English sources

"The management have effectively imposed a settlement.

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.

Strikes were brief when they happened at all, and disputes ended when the government imposed a settlement and told strikers to go back to work.

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

The act, which has been on the books since 1977, has teeth; in 2008 it imposed a settlement of $800m, its biggest ever, on Siemens, Europe's largest engineering company, for paying bribes to governments round the world.The FCPA was not written to punish crimes such as paying police officers for information.

The former Foreign Secretary, who served as the European Union chief negotiator in the Balkans in the early 1990s, said he had no doubt that Milosevic could have imposed a settlement on the Bosnian Serbs in early 1993 if he had been prepared to cut off oil and other shipments to their self-proclaimed republic.

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

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

Comparatively few go to a full court hearing where a judge imposes 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.