Sentence examples for settled long before from inspiring English sources

And so the wider narrative of this game had been settled long before the final whistle was blown.

The fog of propaganda and counter-propaganda settled long before the last corpse had been laid to rest.

And most arrangements for the deaf are settled long before any issues reach a courtroom, said Curtis Decker, the executive director of the National Disability Rights Network, a federally financed association of legal services programs.

In April, America startled other countries by suggesting a whole new set of definitions for the crimes to be covered by the court, an issue that others thought had been settled long before.

The Hungarian Paul Turán remarked in his description of Baker's work in the proceedings of the Nice Congress that his achievement was made all the more impressive by the German David Hilbert's prediction that the Riemann hypothesis, which remains unproved, would be settled long before the proof of the transcendence of αβ.

The number of sexual and racial discrimination cases filed with employment tribunals in England and Wales has soared by 76% in the past five years to more than 8,000 this year.Most such actions are settled long before they reach court, because few companies are willing to risk a lengthy court hearing with all the inevitable publicity.

The mortgage was settled long ago.

This border skirmish was settled long ago.

The matter was settled long ago.

In October 2013, the government settled long-standing international arbitral disputes (including with three US firms) dating back to before and following the 2002 Argentine financial crisis.

One bottler, Ron Wilson of Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling, said a boycott in 1981 had cut into Coke sales, although he predicted that the lawsuit would be settled before long, eliminating the need for the boycott Mr. Jones announced.