Sentence examples for imposing a settlement from inspiring English sources

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.

Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded his assassinated mother as prime minister, sent in Indian troops in 1987 with the aim of quickly imposing a settlement of the ethnic conflict.

He said that if they failed to do so by July 10, he would recommend a solution to the energy agency's five commissioners, who would then have the option of imposing a settlement.

As the Haaretz correspondent notes, even though Ms. Power said in an interview with the same newspaper in 2008 that her remarks sounded "weird" out of context, and insisted that she did not believe in imposing a settlement, the video was used that year by critics Mr. Obama who suggested that he was advised by a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli academic.

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.

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.

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.

But Congress also has the power to impose a settlement, something it has frequently done in the rail industry.