Sentence examples for is meant to settle from inspiring English sources

Next month's clarification from agricultural officials in Washington is meant to settle that dispute.

During the "night phase" of the third orbit he released the six-inch ten-pound sphere of flashing lights, which is meant to settle into a neighbouring orbit in continuous view of the astronaut.

Some attacks are meant to settle scores or warn off commercial competition.

That was meant to settle accusations that it had misled investors through inventory manipulation.

But these sort of ethnic-historical squabbles are just the sort of thing that EU enlargement was meant to settle.

Antietam, at the dawn of modern warfare, was meant to settle a civil conflict, one that had followed decades of deliberation, debate, and negotiation.

Its landlord, tenant and city representatives were meant to settle disputes, bring buildings up to code and make them a part of the rent-stabilization system.

The auction lots have a broad geographical span: a 1750 Dutch edict was meant to settle disputes among Jews in Curaçao ($3,000 to $5,000), and a 19th-century scroll came from an Azores synagogue ($4,000 to $5,000).

IT WAS hard, at first, to work out who had prevailed in the election on April 22nd that was meant to settle the future of the small but strategically placed republic of Montenegro and perhaps also the fate of the shrivelling, decrepit federation of Yugoslavia.

The independence referendum two years ago was meant to settle Scotland's constitutional question for a generation, but as the UK hurtles towards Brexit – a decision opposed by 62percentt of Scottish voters – it might just become a thing again.

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