Sentence examples for matter of settled from inspiring English sources

Foreign consular officers do not enjoy exemptions from the local administration of justice to the same extent as the staffs of foreign diplomatic missions, and the law governing consular immunities is less a matter of settled customary international rules than of bilateral or multilateral treaties.

This is a matter of settled law.

"The lawfulness of my detention or otherwise is now a matter of settled law".

"It's a matter of settled law," Ms. Feldt said, "so this decision is 180 degrees in the opposite direction.

But as Susan Hennessey, the managing editor of the influential Lawfare blog, pointed out over the weekend, "This is not a matter of settled law".

Since Luther v. Borden (1849), for example, it is a matter of settled practice that the court will not use Article IV, Section 4 which provides that the states must have a republican form of government to invalidate state laws; it is for Congress and the president to decide whether a particular state government is republican in form.

If much of the opening set felt provisional, it wasn't just a matter of settling in.

Marriage seems to have been forever a matter of settling up the price: so many beads, so many head of cattle, goats and sheep, etc.

"You want to produce, and when things don't go as well as you want the first time, it's just a matter of settling down.

"I slept about an hour but it was more a matter of settling in because it was the first moment I'd had to think about it.

That's more easily said than done, and Mr. Wright, probably wisely, refrained from specifying what in his view that story is; adapting any novel as dense as "Anna Karenina" is largely a matter of settling on the right emotional tone.