Sentence examples for means to settle from inspiring English sources

At least both sides have agreed to use only peaceful means to settle the matter.

Memoirs by important players in official Washington are sometimes a means to settle scores.

A strong believer in nonviolent resistance, Belo sought peaceful means to settle the troubles in his homeland.

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.

Named for a Quechuan word that literally means "when the blood is boiling", Takanakuy was invented in Peru's Andean city of Santo Tomás as a means to settle disputes.

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

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.

Though the Mishnah contained the most comprehensive collection of Jewish laws up to that time, it was not meant to settle issues involving contradictory interpretations.