Sentence examples for prepared to settle on from inspiring English sources

It took 16 months to form a new government after the most recent election, for example, because neither side were prepared to settle on anything.

"I wasn't prepared to settle for that".

On the bright side: India, although formally claiming Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, has long been prepared to settle for the line of control as the international boundary.

The commission hoped to double aid to Africa by 2008, but was prepared to settle for a doubling by 2010.

Mr Abrams says the sticking point is likely to be the amount Proview is prepared to settle for.

By comparison with landowners living in Estonia, their property use has so far been more passive and they are not prepared to settle permanently on the property that has been restored to them.

While the New Jersey Parole Board struggles with its backlog of cases, lawyers for inmates and the Attorney General's office told a federal judge in Camden Wednesday that they were prepared to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners who have become eligible for parole but not given the hearings required by law.

When BP released its quarterly earnings on Feb. 7, he said "we are prepared to settle if we can do so on fair and reasonable terms".

"We are prepared to settle if we can do so on fair and reasonable terms," Mr. Dudley said on Tuesday.

Announcing the company's annual results, the American boss said: "As I have said before, we are prepared to settle if we can do so on fair and reasonable terms, but equally, if this is not possible, we are preparing vigorously for trial".

If, for example, it is assumed simply that the continuance of a stoppage progressively increases the wish of the parties to end it, and so causes firms to raise and the union to lower the rate at which each is prepared to settle, then the stoppage will end on the day when the two rates have been brought into equality.