Sentence examples for settlement initiative from inspiring English sources

A victims' fund and civil settlement initiative to compensate relatives of victims of last year's unrest have been created.

Thus, each teaching hospital should assess the state of its administrative refund claims in order to be prepared for contact from the IRS under this settlement initiative.

Moreover, the mistake he made is common enough that in February 2007, the IRS offered current and former U.S.-based employees of foreign embassies, missions and other international groups a "one-time settlement initiative" to essentially resolve mistakes like the one Geithner made.

It became the basis for all subsequent settlement initiatives.

You see a lot, the Israeli government in particular, they've announced some big settlement-building initiatives of several thousand homes in East Jerusalem over the green line.

With the government unable to fulfill its post-apartheid promise of building enough housing to phase out informal settlements, urban initiatives like the [IN]FORMAL STUDIO project have now turned their attention from eradicating these settlements to upgrading them.

While the I.R.S. did not dispute the data in the report, it called unfounded its comparison of the Son of Boss settlement program with a broader initiative, known as offer in compromise, which allows ordinary taxpayers to settle their tax bills for a percentage of the amount owed.

In allocating just two-thirds of the tobacco settlement dollars for health care initiatives, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman seriously impairs New Jersey's ability to fight Big Tobacco (news article, Jan . 25.

It can happen, though, if Israel works with a new Palestinian prime minister, makes tough demands but doesn't expect perfection overnight, doesn't let itself be goaded by Hamas into freezing everything, takes its own initiative to dismantle settlements and taps what is still there: Palestinian interest in going to Memphis, not just to heaven.

But its inclusion of "food stamp" style discounts for poor people in vulnerable regions side-steps the need to pair such policies with long-term initiatives aimed at shifting settlement patterns altogether.

Mr. Netanyahu has avoided the Palestinian issue while enabling and encouraging settlement building; he has ignored the Arab initiative and focused solely on the threat of Iran.