Sentence examples for settlement in the face of from inspiring English sources

In 2007, Ms. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, was accused of shoving an employee at that company and later paid a six-figure settlement in the face of a lawsuit.

"[N]o reasonable attorney could seriously argue that a $100-million settlement, in the face of multiple risks that could mean recovering nothing, is inadequate," Liss-Riordan said in her filing.

It's just not as easy these days for banks to do things like charge a bunch of extra overdraft fees on creatively ordered debit-card purchases, or whatever JPMorgan was doing that led it to pay a $110 million settlement in the face of such accusations a few weeks ago.

In September 2009, Mr. Obama abandoned his insistence on a settlement freeze in the face of Israeli recalcitrance.

Mr. Trimble has been a calming and progressive force in the unionist camp, keeping his party engaged in the crisis-ridden peace settlement process in the face of strong opposition from associates who are against the accord and covet his leadership position.

That money is now in jeopardy because the tobacco giant Philip Morris, which is now part of a company called Altria and which pays a large part of the settlement, has threatened bankruptcy in the face of a large judgment against it in Illinois.

America must define a detailed peace settlement and push for it in the face of Israeli and Palestinian political opposition.

Other such recent examples include the variation in larval tolerance in a sea urchin to the combined effects of warming and ocean acidification (Foo et al. 2012) and the settlement success of coral larvae in the face of sublethal warming (Meyer et al. 2009).

So why am I and others pushing for settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the face of all these?

It would seem very doubtful that the Israeli Government would agree to Fayyad's terms for a peace settlement, especially given the Israelis' intransigence in the face of the Palestinians' flexibility in the 2008 negotiations, as revealed by al-Jazeera earlier this week.

However, he went on to withdraw from Gaza and four settlements in the northern West Bank in the face of great hostility at home, but ruled out any further unilateral withdrawals.