Sentence examples for it has been settled from inspiring English sources
And now, even though it has been settled, the dispute has touched a raw nerve in South Africa.
In anything but the narrowest technical sense, which conflates efficiency with predictability, it has been settled in the negative.
Because of freshwater springs in the vicinity, it has been settled for millennia; King Solomon's port and foundry of Ezion-geber lay nearby.
It has been settled over the last century and a half by a succession of impoverished immigrants who came to work the mill, first from England and Ireland, then from Italy, Finland, Poland and Russia.
Most Israelis, particularly the present government, have been blithely indifferent to repeated international condemnations of Israel's systematic theft of Palestinian territory on which it has been settling its own Jewish population in blatant violation of international law.
Recently it has been settling 50,000 asbestos cases a year for an average of $1,800 each.
One reason many Israelis consider it theirs by right is that it had been settled by Jews before 1948.
And Federal District Court Judge Katherine S. Hayden issued an order filed March 10 dismissing the suit on the ground that it had been settled.
Richard Emery, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, said it had been settled law since 1986 that it was unconstitutional to require people accused of minor crimes to strip naked.
Those who thought that it could all be safely forgotten once it had been settled by parliament a few weeks ago may need to think again.
