Sentence examples for overdue settlement from inspiring English sources
Long overdue settlement of the week: eBay and Skype Last week, after four years of hilarity, the mess of eBay's purchase of Skype was finally cleaned up.
History offers no comfort; there is every reason to believe that sporadic and undirected violence will be the theme of the immediate future, and that, unfortunately, it will accomplish little to improve the Palestinians' conditions or advance the prospects of a long overdue settlement.
A truly comprehensive peace settlement is well overdue.
A negotiated settlement is long overdue, but it will only happen if strong international pressure, including from the US, is exerted on the Saudis.
"Everyone who has been involved with this process knows that this settlement is long overdue and provides a fair resolution to all parties," said the bill's sponsor, Representative Mary Bono, Republican of California.
President Barack Obama's abstention at the U.N. has been touted by liberals as a much-needed, if not long overdue, implicit rebuke of a settlement policy that has complicated Israel-Palestine peace negotiations.
"For our clients, this settlement represents a long overdue acknowledgment of the truth of their stories of abuse, stories that until today were largely denied and belittled by apologists for the abusers".
States have borrowed against pension funds and tobacco settlement payments and offered amnesty to delinquent taxpayers to encourage them to make overdue payments.
Settlement of the dispute, which both sides say is overdue, could be the official cue for a wave of Japanese investment.
Days before the settlement, the money was quickly used to repay an overdue $25 million loan to Major League Baseball and a $40 million loan to Bank of America, which was taken out last fall for the team's swelling losses.
On the same call, Kenneth R. Feinberg, the former special master of the federal compensation fund that paid awards to families of 9/11 victims in a system similar to what the settlement for the workers now calls for, called the settlement "long overdue".
