Sentence examples for settlement commissions from inspiring English sources

All over the country, land settlement commissions were at work surveying, redrawing boundaries, and negotiating with the village assemblies on behalf of the new smallholders.

While suggesting that most of the commissioners appear to be leaning toward approving a settlement, commission staff members say they are hedging their bets.

Why?Because they have already received some form of prior compensation, which disqualifies them under terms set by the international settlement commission.

That pact, however, complicated the separate and simultaneous effort by Eagleburger to set up the settlement commission with German insurance companies.

Abu Ein was a minister without a portfolio in the newly formed Palestinian unity government, in charge of the PA's Anti-Wall and Settlement commission.

After the Sears settlement, the commission did act on stoves — sort of, as Ed Mierzwinski of U.S. PIRG points out.

No matter how generous a dollar settlement the commission garnered, it is still an important step short.

It is not clear what sort of settlement the commission will try to elicit from Morgan Stanley, but a monetary settlement could be substantial because employees in the division are highly paid.

In one case, the three Republican commissioners — Matthew S. Petersen, Caroline C. Hunter and Donald F. McGahn II — refused to endorse a settlement the commission had reached with a novice Democratic Congressional candidate who had provided inaccurate information about his donors.

A growing number of those lawsuits result in the kind of settlements the commission is now investigating.

Courts have given substantial deference to federal agencies' decisions to settle cases, approving thousands of previous settlements, the commission said in its court papers.