Sentence examples for means of settling from inspiring English sources

Mobile-phone credits are already used as a means of settling bills.

Pacifism, the opposition to war and violence as a means of settling disputes.

Possibly the ceremony was first exploited as a means of settling feudal disputes.

"A way must be found to eliminate war as a means of settling quarrels between nations".

Local courts offer the only official means of settling the more recent property disputes.

According to this "democratic peace" doctrine, democracies do not go to war with each other, and in domestic life they provide nonviolent means of settling differences.

The Edinburgh side also had a slightly better goal average - the preferred means, in those days, of settling league positions for teams on the same points.

The official described such an arrangement as a tribal method of settling scores and meant to ensure that the president saved face.

But Lee allows her characters vulnerability and brokenhearted warmth that cracks our assumptions of what it means to settle, whether ideologically or romantically.

An inclusive survey of 51 ancient societies on all continents has shown that interpersonal mediation was the first means to settle disputes; the creation of something akin to a police force was restricted to less than half of the sample.

But equally powerful is the demand that we hear his message--his whole message, including his condemnation of war as a means to settle conflict--and use it as a genuine opportunity for reflection and action.