Sentence examples for settlements in an effort from inspiring English sources

He became a Maori health officer in 1900 and worked to improve medical care and hygiene in Maori settlements in an effort to overcome resistance to European medical practices.

Once across, the conquistadors ransacked nearby settlements in an effort to terrorise the K'iche'.

[Section A.] $1 Billion Settlement Over Implants Europe's biggest orthopedics maker, Sulzer Medica, has agreed to a $1 billion settlement in an effort to avoid a long legal battle with thousands of United States patients who received defective hip and knee implants.

With the agreement of legislative leaders, he is tapping 5percentt of the tobacco industry settlement in an effort to keep farmers on the land as part of what he calls a "smart growth" strategy of protecting rustic traditions in development areas.

He said his administration had put in place dispute-settlement programs in an effort to speed up the recovery.

One official close to the talks said the problems and liabilities are the very issues under discussion now as the parties exchange drafts of their settlement proposals in an effort to come to an agreement by next Wednesday, the deadline set by a court-appointed mediator.

If no suitable plan emerges, they may set up a clearing and settlement system themselves in an effort to cut pan-European share-dealing costs.

Throughout January the brigade advanced north along the coast from Kuraio Mission, clearing the main settlements while sending patrols inland in an effort to flush out the Japanese from the high features in an effort to draw them into fighting in the open.

The $211 million pact is the largest of three major settlements that securities regulators have reached in an effort to clean up municipal finance.

The American Legacy Foundation, an antismoking group created with more than $1 billion from a huge 1998 tobacco settlement, sued the Lorillard Tobacco Company yesterday in an effort to preserve an advertising campaign that has piqued the interest of teenagers and the ire of the tobacco companies.

Lawyers for the diocese and the plaintiffs spent much of the weekend in an effort to negotiate a settlement.