Sentence examples for settlement quickly from inspiring English sources

The settlement quickly grew into a colony of unheated bungalows, many with outhouses.

The way to get the city back on its feet is for city officials, creditors and retirees to negotiate a fair settlement quickly.

"You have obtained," fumed the British foreign secretary, Lord Palmerston, "a barren island, with hardly a house on it".Yet Hong Kong's deep harbour provided an anchorage safe from most weather and possible attack, and the settlement quickly grew.

He went through the settlement quickly, and he is now left to survive on $600-a-month 600-a-month

Mantell and Cargill, who had been bitter political opponents for the control of the early settlement, quickly found themselves at loggerheads over the proposal, and disputes over the ownership and allocation of the land dragged on for over two decades, finally being settled in the courts in 1877.

The insurance company could offer you a settlement quickly in hopes that you don't realize the extent of your possible damages.

Since eighty per cent of Canadians live within a hundred miles of their southern border, the settlements quickly subside in the north and nature returns to rule all but the thin ribbon of concrete on which we drive.

Within the district, gold rush settlements quickly arose near the mines, and Rhyolite became the largest.

The people dispersed into many settlements, quickly becoming a major influence to the lumber and food industries in the region.

We're hoping for a settlement as quickly as possible".

The Indian resistance to settlement was quickly overcome, in part owing to an epidemic of smallpox that decimated the native population.