Sentence examples for senior settlements from inspiring English sources

Some viatical firms use "senior settlements," recruiting older folks who are neither terminally nor even chronically ill to take out life insurance policies, to which unsuspecting investors buy rights.

Paying senior executives redundancy settlements in excess of their contractual requirements is part of the BBC's culture, the Trust chairman has said.

But Mr. Qanooni was careful not to rule out a security force as part of a settlement, senior diplomats said.

The issue of providing settlements for senior officials in the Mugabe regime was addressed last year when the US and the UK were asked to pay into a trust fund that would ensure Zimbabwean military officials enjoy a comfortable retirement.

Traded life policy investments (TLPIs, otherwise known as senior life or viatical settlements), which invest in US life insurance policies, have been promoted to UK investors on the basis that they pay a predictable and far higher yield than cash savings, and do not suffer the same peaks and troughs as stockmarket investments or savings effected by economic cycles.

Graeme McDonald, director of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers, said: "This settlement reminds us that the financial challenge facing local government is immense.

"We have long said — and the secretary has said — that it is important to change Bashar al-Assad's calculations in order to get to a political settlement," a senior State Department official told reporters Tuesday in a conference call.

Guardian Unlimited has learned Mr Grodnikov was investigating rumours of police plans to secretly detain opposition activists at a dacha settlement for senior interior ministry officials near the capital.

Joanna Killian, chair of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers, said: "This settlement will increase the risk of more councils being financially unviable … very difficult local choices will now need to be made and local government should have the freedom to make these choices, even when setting council tax".

Graeme McDonald, director of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers said: "This settlement reminds us that the financial challenge facing local government is immense.

Vernet's deputy, the Scotsman Matthew Brisbane, returned to the islands that year to restore the business, but his efforts ended after, amid unrest at Port Louis, gaucho Antonio Rivero led a group of "malcontents" to murder Brisbane and the settlement's senior leaders; survivors hid in a cave on a nearby island until the British returned and restored order.