The Ministry of Defence has paid out £563,000 to settle "common law claims" arising from the deaths of 185 civilian men, women and children since 2007, according to figures obtained by The Independent.
Over time, both legend and actual specimens intertwined, and when the dust settled, the common chimpanzee, or Troglodyte, was kicked out of the genus Homo and placed in the genus Pan (Oken 1816).
A quick look at the breakdown of Android versions currently in use shows that certain versions have settled into common use, but the sheer number of manufacturers working with Android means that the timing for new software updates can be dramatically different from company to company.
The view that the $700 billion TARP bailout of 2008 was a rip off of the American people has settled into common wisdom for many.
Among other things, countries must settle on common methods for measuring and reporting their greenhouse gas emissions, how those results will be audited to ensure countries are meeting their promises, how money will be provided to developing countries to help them hold down emissions, and what political mechanism will prod countries to strengthen their goals in the future.
Gedeon's surname was common in Cleveland, because many people from Sudetenland, where it was common, settled in Cleveland.
What the groups of Kraftwerk's cohort settled on, in common, was reduction and repetition: no guitar solos.
State and federal officials trying to prepare remedy proposals in the Microsoft antitrust case have not settled on a common approach, officials say, and the states are having trouble agreeing even among themselves.
Bain settled on a common tactic in private equity: In April 1999, it pushed Dade to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to buy half of Bain's shares in the company — and half of those of its investment partners.
After a plethora of back-room meetings and a discussion between the prime minister and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, the government and opposition settled for a common motion, duly passed on April 9th.
But now that the trend has settled in as common practice at big orchestras — at a time when the turbulent financial state of American symphony orchestras shows no sign of abating — I found myself taking stock with my home-town band.
