Sentence examples for settlement against from inspiring English sources

The rich settlement against a foreign firm is a landmark.

But, he said, "the Legislature has to weigh a bad settlement against draconian penalties".

He built dwellings, a chapel, a hospital, and other structures, protecting the settlement against Indian attack with a stockade.

It's set in a remote Canadian settlement against a background of prohibition, land rights and maple sugar.

In Dallas, the diocese cleaned house after a scandal resulted in a $120 million settlement against it in 1997.

In 1999, African-American farmers won a major civil rights settlement against the United States Department of Agriculture.

That same year, 2001, the families of 69 children with cancer won a multimillion-dollar legal settlement against two chemical companies and the water utility.

The firm once won a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar settlement against the city because of an accident purportedly caused by a pothole on the Queensboro Bridge.

Twenty-five abuse cases are pending, and the diocese just reached an out-of-court settlement against a man who had been awarded $8.75 million by a jury.

A global settlement against Standard Chartered, expected as early as the end of the month, will be the latest in a spate of sanctions violations cases.

The music industry scored a victory against online piracy last week by winning a $105 million settlement against the file-sharing network LimeWire.