settled in advance

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Labour delegates would have settled in advance for something a bit safe and a bit dull.

"In the United States, most intellectual property claims never reach court and are settled in advance," Mr. Chrocziel said.

Which kinds of material substrates are compatible with living activity is an empirical question that cannot be settled in advance.

Further, he said, the budget was not settled in advance, "which resulted in 'our old disease' of begging for money from the authorities again".

If one firm fears that another cannot get an overdraft because its bank is in trouble, it may demand that bills are paid sooner or even settled in advance.

You can expect even the more serious conservatives to dumb down the debate over executive enforcement discretion and treat it as unambiguously settled in advance that anything Obama does here simply must illegal.

If either party assumes that the other is unreasonable and sufficiently stubborn, then the logical thing to do is settle in advance without incurring the additional costs of the strike.

The Garden's decision to settle in advance of Thursday's hearing before Judge Gerard E. Lynch "puts a finality to the case and they don't have to go through appeals, which are very costly," said Dona Kahn, an employment litigator who is of counsel to Anderson, Kill & Olick.

So, if the parties do not settle in advance of the hearing, FINRA will have an outstanding bill of about $7,200.

"I settled in fast.

Though his conviction was reversed on appeal and then settled in June in advance of a retrial, U.S. District Judge Christopher Droney sentenced him to only two years back in 2008.