Sentence examples for point of settling from inspiring English sources

What's the point of settling for some translator's weak approximation when you could be quaking to the real thing?

And for banks — threatened by crushing legal challenges for their conduct — the whole point of settling is to restrict legal claims.

They were incredibly stubborn, these old Turks; they persisted in their effort to the point of settling down, setting up small towns right there, next to the city walls.

In their discussions, Delta and Northwest have reached the point of settling on leadership, and it appears that Delta's chief executive, Richard H. Anderson, would retain that role in a combined carrier, these people said.

Comptroller Scott Stringer has made a point of settling some civil rights cases before lawsuits begin, saying resolving them quickly saves the city money on legal fees.

As governor, she let personal considerations drive political decisions, treated political differences as a personal insult, and made a point of settling scores.

It may be that at this early point in the period of settled village life on the Chiapas Coast significant status differences between residential groups, as expressed in architecture, had emerged but that they were still tied only ineffectively to the economy, as represented by various classes of artifacts.

But as leading economists Tim Jackson and Peter Victor point out, instead of settling for high rates of unemployment, why not share the work out, with shorter hours for all allowing more people to join the labour force?

Dead-beat controllers are considered optimal from the point of view of settling time.

"And the fact we have got three points kind of settles you down a bit".

The second argument points to the difficulties of settling upon a specification of what a non-linguistic creature is thinking.