Sentence examples for settle to accept from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, in the media, there is enormous pressure on Muslims to "settle", to accept the judgment as fair.

In Buffalo, it was bittersweet riddance to Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ("His biggest flaw might have been his own enormous self-confidence, a belief that far exceeded his talent. Fitzpatrick never thought of himself as a career backup. He refused to settle, to accept low expectations," is how Jerry Sullivan put it at The Buffalo News).

For better or for worse, what was unique about the game was gone, and college football settled down to accept its role as the N.F.L.'s junior partner.

Buddhist councils are usually convened to settle doctrinal disputes or to accept revisions of texts.

"Yes," Suárez says, "our secret lies in the determination not to settle for anything, never to accept the minimum.

Moreover, when the suit was settled, the department agreed to accept federal monitors to ensure that racial slurs were no longer directed at guards and inmates, that Ku Klux Klan posters would not reappear on the walls at the adult diagnostic and treatment center at Avenel, and that there was no retaliation against officers who had complained.

These were eventually settled with an agreement to accept the decision of an international arbitration commission set up via the UN, enabling Croatia to progress towards EU membership.

These disputes with Slovenia were eventually settled with an agreement to accept the decision of an international arbitration commission set up via the UN, enabling Croatia to progress towards EU membership.

I had a certain talent, and I had the sort of dogged work ethic of the class of people that I grew up with, but it took me a long time just to settle and accept that it wasn't my fault that I got through the wire and other people didn't.

Swartz too refused to settle and accept the designation "felon," and consequentially faced possible decades in prison.

As a bench ruling in Avery v Pierce neared, Shiller proposed an ordinance that directed the city to settle and accept a consent decree.