With world outrage still reverberating over a weekend massacre of villagers, the United States ambassador to the United Nations suggested Wednesday that with little hope left for a political settlement, the conflict in Syria appeared likely to develop into a regional sectarian war.
Last year, a dozen of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms agreed to a $1.4 billion global settlement of conflicts of interest.
A "global settlement" of conflicts of interest problems in the securities industry, negotiated by the SEC and Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney-general, turned into a notably messy and chaotic business.
News that brokerage firms had reached a settlement on conflict-of-interest charges and that the Senate Republican leader, Trent Lott, had resigned his leadership post added to the good mood.
It leaves for later, for instance, the settlement of conflicting claims to Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed city that was subjected to a government-encouraged immigration of Arabs during Mr. Hussein's time.
The letters surfaced last week, shortly before UBS Warburg is expected to pay $50 million in fines and payments as part of a global settlement on conflicts between research and investment banking.
These rules accumulated through an historical process of rationalisation of popular wisdom, playing an important role in the regulation of social life and the settlement of conflicts.
This paper is concerned with the historical and diachronic dimensions of a nowadays widespread discursive practice, i.e. the settlement of conflicts on the basis of reasonable arguments.
After Florida became a U.S. territory and settlement increased, conflicts between colonists and Seminoles became more frequent.
Spanish explorers and missionaries visited in the 16th and 17th centuries, and missions and settlements often conflicted with local American Indian tribes during the 18th century.
