Sentence examples for modest settlements from inspiring English sources

Modest settlements have been reached with both.

So this may not herald similarly modest settlements with BP and others.

Collum paid the injured miners modest settlements of between five thousand and eleven thousand dollars.

She received a modest settlement from each ex.

"This is a very modest settlement," Mr. Rivera said.

The Labour Party produced a modest settlement plan, mostly for a strategic presence to secure the new eastern border.

This modest settlement later went on to serve as the capital of the state of Virginia for almost a century.

A modest settlement of squat houses, cheap hotels and restaurants, Bolans has goats and chickens wandering in its the streets.

"We have to look at this as being a modest settlement even thought the number itself, the $26 billion, is an eye-popping number," said Ms. Porter.

And the principle is still operating right now, as federal officials press state attorneys general to accept a very modest settlement from banks that engaged in abusive mortgage practices.

"I think everybody decided enough is enough," said James Janowitz, Ms. Love's attorney, about the January decision to postpone the trial and reach what he described as a modest settlement that extends payments through 2014.