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Eckert, the head of the adjudicatory chamber of the supposedly independent Fifa ethics committee, and Garcia, the head of the investigatory arm, are due to meet on Thursday in a bid to settle their differences.

"We are exactly where we were last August, exactly where we were having won the elections, we were 14 and a bit per cent," he said in a bid to settle nerves in the party after signs that the party's support was being squeezed at the most crucial of times before the election.

Ms Gillard responded by calling a ballot among Labor parliamentarians when federal parliament resumed this week, in a bid to settle the leadership war once and for all.Clinging to power in a minority government, and depending on Australian Greens and independents to survive, Labor parliamentarians faced an agonising choice.

In a bid to settle the argument, the farmers arranged a contest that would be judged by the other farmers in the area.

And an ongoing bid to settle a debt to creditors Graham Sizer and Philip Scott , who are seeking repayment on a loan agreed with former chairman George Houghton, has stalled.

This year we recruited our widest judging panel yet in the Guardian's annual bid to settle the ultimate pub argument: 73 experts drawn from 28 nations casting a total of 2,920 votes.

Marie Harf, its spokesperson, said this week that America backs Japan's bid to settle the issue, but in a way that "takes into account the interest" of its diplomatic partners a reference to South Korea.Japan has already partially eased tough sanctions against the North.

Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, noted in a television interview that the Scottish police investigation of the bombing had never been closed, and that the new Libyan government established after Colonel Qaddafi's death last year had "promised to cooperate" in a bid to finally settle who was responsible.

In a bid to win back customer trust, AT&T decided to settle a class-action lawsuit yesterday that addresses the problem.

He presented four options, each designed to generate the same amount of revenue, in a bid to shift the public dialogue from a question that had been settled before Mr. Lhota arrived — will there be a fare increase?

Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, and since then it has settled more than 200,000 citizens there in a bid to hold on to the land.