Sentence examples for rights settlement from inspiring English sources

In 1999, African-American farmers won a major civil rights settlement against the United States Department of Agriculture.

"The Crow Water Rights Settlement Act provides the tribe with the exclusive right to get it built within a period of time," Mr. Watt said.

The 1999 agreement on what is known as the Pigford class-action lawsuit was hailed as the biggest civil rights settlement in American history.

A civil rights settlement obliges Los Angeles not to build schools of lesser quality in the central city than in the suburbs.

There is increasing concern that the UK's political rhetoric will, if not checked, threaten the coherence and credibility of the post-second world war human rights settlement".

While the actual water consumption figures remain murky, what is clear is the highly contentious nature of a recent water deal, the Crow Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010.

Mr. Relman has a history of involvement in sizable civil rights settlements.

The legislation was also amended to include a one-year extension to a program that provides temporary benefits to poor families, and several American Indian water rights settlements, both requested by Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona.

All told, the settlement would be the largest in a civil rights suit against New York City, lawyers said, and appears to be one of the largest civil rights settlements against a municipality anywhere.

The combined civil rights settlements exceeded $4.5 billion together.

"This is the right settlement for the institution," Gary Hanson, the orchestra's executive director, said in an interview.