Sentence examples for nearly settled from inspiring English sources

I was there for four years and I nearly settled there.

With the family-planning financing nearly settled — depending on negotiations in conference committee — the last lingering battlefield is abortion.

With the agreement nearly settled, a teachers' contract and a budget deal should soon follow, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.

Mr. Mnuchin again repeated his claim that the biggest obstacle to a trade deal — how to enforce the agreement — is nearly settled.

Matters were nearly settled when in January 1858, just before rehearsals were to begin, an Italian attempted in Paris to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III of France, killing bystanders in the bombing.

In an interview, Koch took us back to the early days at the company, including his pitch to investors, his run-in with a brick wall and the name he nearly settled on instead of Samuel Adams.

The 2013 Masters champion felt the nerves on the first tee, sending his ball so far right that it cleared the deep gallery lining the fairway and bounding all the way into the trees – nearly settling out of bounds.

Facing the scary prospect of a federal copyright-infringement lawsuit, nearly everyone settled; but two cases have proceeded to trial.

Civil rights advocates, however, say that the legal lines are nowhere nearly so settled, and argue that because integration remains an important and unfilled goal of public policy, schools should have some discretion about how to achieve it.

The Yankees' starting pitching is not nearly as settled, with only Mike Mussina, the erratic Jeff Weaver and Contreras, who endured injuries and struggled in his first major league season, signed for 2004.

Bayer has spent nearly $1.6 billion settling lawsuits involving recently developed birth-control pills.