Sentence examples for prospective settlement from inspiring English sources

One of them, K. C. Okoli, said that testimony had been suspended because of "a prospective settlement" in the suit over fees stemming from the $8.75 million settlement of Mr. Louima's civil suit against the city and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association after he was tortured at a Brooklyn police station in 1997.

The prospective settlement with the S.E.C. would presumably be the climax of a two-year regulatory investigation of whether top investment banks engaged in a form of price support by allocating bigger stakes of hot public offerings to clients who would commit themselves to buying more stock at higher levels.

The sum represents its settlement of prospective charges that it bought and sold €300m of Parmalat bonds in the months before the collapse, knowing that there was fraud at the company.

On the other hand, Colbert said, "other prospective jurors might see settlements as reason not to find the officers guilty.

U.S. participation in such an aggressive military campaign would undercut prospective attempts to negotiate a settlement of the armed conflict, which has increasing support in Colombia.

In 1841, Brunner's father put his son's name forward to the New Zealand Company, which was seeking prospective emigrants for its proposed settlement in the South Island of New Zealand.

"Certainly a civil settlement could affect a prospective juror's ability to be fair and impartial," said Doug Colbert, a law professor at the University of Maryland and a former public defender.

Medwed suspects that prospective jurors may improperly infer from the settlement that the city is admitting that the officers did something wrong.

Few studies have used prospective cohort data to assess how the settlement experiences of migrant families may negatively impact on the adult health of second-generation children.

Although Israeli policy is to allow new immigrants to live wherever they choose, several officials acknowledged privately that government-financed agencies are helping the settlements to market themselves to prospective immigrants.

Mobiot said the most insidious aspect of the prospective deal was the mechanism for investor state dispute settlement.