The conflict has inflicted endless damage on both sides and, no matter what the complications of a settlement are, the alternative — of more armed conflict, of more recrimination, of no contact, of a deepening radicalism — is worse.
However, the BMA, which was given until 3pm to reply, appeared to reject the deal in a letter to the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in which their junior doctor chairman Dr Johann Malawana offered an alternative settlement, based on one the BMA proposed in December, which would reduce the basic pay rise offered to junior doctors in exchange for better out-of-hours rates.
However, the church has talked to community affected by flooding to look for alternative settlement but they will hear none of that.
Mr Morgan said: "An English backlash - that is the main danger because you could say Wales will be rewarded for not causing this instability in the British constitutional settlement but the alternative view to that is it'll be a curse on all you Celts".
I noted here earlier that the reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar is a matter of degree and each time we put foreign investors through this drama they will be more likely to look for alternative settlement mechanisms.
BOSTON — A federal judge on Thursday approved a settlement meant to guarantee alternatives to segregation for mentally ill inmates in Massachusetts prisons.
The department said it would release the goods if the companies paid $500,000 in back wages and damages to 16 current and former workers, though an alternative legal settlement might be negotiated.
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Proposed remedies include an alternative market settlement process, long-term contract, fast licensing and siting process for new generation and transmission, conservation and energy-efficiency, distributed resources, rate options, and debt restructuring.
He even rejected an alternative proposed settlement (without fleshing out exactly what it was) — saying Facebook management had wanted to put a nondisclosure agreement in it, and "that was part of the reason that I got sort of cold feet in terms of trying to settle with these guys".
