Sentence examples for settling of accounts from inspiring English sources
The backward-looking settling of accounts with Mrs Arroyo does not help.
In some ways, the speech was a rhetorical settling of accounts.
Shouldn't a settling of accounts for the old year precede beginning the new?
Before that can be forgiven, there has to be a settling of accounts.
There was no edge, no settling of accounts, just a mutual admiration.
The committee understood its responsibility for the future, and gave this precedence over settling accounts of the past.One of the principal dangers of inquiries like the present ones is that they focus on the failures at hand, making the necessary recommendations to ensure that such failures never happen again.
Last month, Dell settled charges of accounting fraud presented by the Securities and Exchange Commission by paying $100 million.
At Dell last month, the company paid $100 million to settle charges of accounting fraud leveled by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which examined about five years of the company's financial results.
The American and Belgian arms of KPMG International, a global accounting cooperative based in Switzerland, have agreed to pay $115 million to settle claims of accounting malpractice growing out of the collapse of a Belgian speech-recognition software company.
Correction: August 21, 2000, Monday An article in Business Day on Wednesday about a bid for Avis Group Holdings by Henry Silverman, chief executive of the CendantCorporation, misstated the amount paid by Cendant in 1999 to settle accusations of accounting fraud.
