Sentence examples for settlement of scores from inspiring English sources

These are settlement of scores among rival bands of organized crime, or fratricidal struggles between nationalist groups".

The whodunit is well wrapped up — anyone schooled in "L.A. Confidential" will have solved it long before — and, as with "Blade Runner," the glare and heat of Dick's imaginings seem to outglow the settlement of narrative scores.

This March, Otedola claimed Dangote and broker Nova Finance and Securities Ltd manipulated shares of Otedola's African Petroleum for "settlement of personal scores".

The ongoing feud between Dangote and Femi Otedola, the head of African Petroleum, was the motive behind the stock moves, the ads stated, and was ultimately a "settlement of personal scores" that claimed company shareholders as victims.

Seale writes that the murder "must therefore be seen as a final settlement of old scores".

At the nearby settlement of Bet Hagai, scores of settlers joined the funeral of the teacher, Rina Didovsky, 39, a mother of six who lived in the community.

WASHINGTON — An American contractor hired by the military to provide translation services for interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has reached a $5 million settlement with scores of detainees who accused its employees of complicity in abusing them, according to financial disclosure documents.

The settlement — like scores of others that dot this harsh landscape — is populated by members of the Bishnoi, a community that traditionally reveres and protects nature.

Earlier this month, a state-appointed panel of jurists issued a report urging the legalization of scores of unauthorized settlement outposts, flouting international opinion by saying Israel's presence in the West Bank is not an occupation.

The zeal of the younger generation of settlers, born and reared in conflict, was on display several miles west of here today, where about 1,000 Jewish youths fought soldiers and police officers who came to evict them from an illegal settlement outpost known as Gilad Farm -- one of scores of encampments built in recent years on West Bank hills.

The council member said the archdiocese's insurance policies would not cover the full $10 million but called the amount "workable" for the archdiocese and said it would not set a precedent that would preclude the church from being able to pay for settlements in the scores of other lawsuits that have since been filed concerning priests accused of abuse.