She never, for example, settled for the first table she was given at a restaurant.
Miami settled for the second-best bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and beat Florida in New Orleans.
But two holding penalties killed that drive too, and the Tigers settled for the second of three Jacob field goals.
"I couldn't get him, so I settled for the second biggest rock star in America today".
The 49ers allow fewer points than any team, and the Giants eventually settled for the first of four Lawrence Tynes field goals and a 10-3 lead.
Guidelines were also settled for the first time on how best to protect birds and bats from wind turbines and other forms of renewable energy.
Ever since they lost the coin flip and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Milwaukee Bucks in 1969 and settled for the second choice, Neal Walk, the Phoenix Suns have been looking for a center who could turn the franchise around.
As for rhyming "swarthy" with "friend of Dorothy," that just about passes muster, but it's as if all involved had settled for the second-best option and were still waiting for inspiration to strike.
"He was searching around for the party bus, the party bus had left the area, so I guess he settled for the first Hispanic he saw," Mr. Johnson said, adding that Mr. Jackson had confessed.
