Sentence examples for settled facts from inspiring English sources

But almost two full weeks after the election, as Christmas decorations went up downtown here, there was nothing simple about what the justices themselves suggested they were being asked to do: revise and elaborate on the state's election laws under intense time pressure, with few settled facts and little in the way of a lower-court record to go on.

In Texas, and especially in rural Texas – where, by the way, electricity and access to electronic media have been settled facts of life for years – the Tea Party rose with a mighty roar to rage against liberals, the government and the newly elected Democratic president.

They present them as settled facts.

I have come to think of my beliefs not as settled facts or eternal verities, but as starting points.

People in the social sciences suffer from physics envy, we want clear and settled facts backed up by interesting charts, slopes, regression tables.

The "junk science" ATP seems most concerned with is what the US National Academy of Sciences says should now be regarded as "settled facts" - that the Earth is warming and humans are the likely cause.

We heard stories of how when Lord Curzon, the British viceroy of India, who partitioned the province of Bengal in 1905 and declared it "a settled fact," the Bengali politician Surendranath Banerjee had retorted, "I shall unsettle the settled fact".

Settled fact is unsatisfying; history as it occurs seems somehow a cheat.

Politicians and bureaucrats, once faced with a settled fact of constraint, often find a way to do what they really consider important.

It is testimony to the adaptability of human nature and to the voracious 24-hour news cycle, in which almost nothing stays news for long that the coalition government, which seemed novel, even amazing, when it was first formed, quickly became a settled fact.

Sites built by ancient civilizations whose construction techniques are not settled fact — like Stonehenge and the perfectly fitting but mortarless walls of the Inca at Machu Picchu, as well as the pyramids — are embraced as evidence that those civilizations had mystical powers.