Sentence examples for settling on a plan from inspiring English sources

REGIME CHANGE -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, right, testifying before the Senate, said the administration was settling on a plan for "regime change" in Iraq --a phrase borrowed from the Clinton administration.

But in 2008 the editors started to seriously rethink the magazine, eventually settling on a plan to have each issue largely focus on a single topic, like noise in sports, and to pare down some of the small nuggets of content at the front.

IRAQ -- The Bush administration toughened its stance on Iraq, with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell saying it was considering a variety of options to secure a "regime change," amid indications that President Bush and his top advisers are close to settling on a plan to oust Saddam Hussein.

They first consider persuading the plumber to destroy the invoice before settling on a plan in which Mr. Stevens is to write a check to reimburse Mr. Allen, not to be cashed but to be kept in the records to suggest to investigators that Mr. Stevens had paid the bill.

To be in this kind of mental state is to have settled on a plan which one seeks to realize through one's action.

After devising three schemes that had to he discarded because of changing conditions on the border, the group, which had been enlarged to include the fiancée of one of the friends, settled on a plan that they considered feasible.

The 16-year-old boy had settled on a plan on how to kill his girlfriend.

Eventually, they found an architect they liked and settled on a plan.

It took us a chain of a hundred and thirty-three e-mails to settle on a plan.

Instead, Lee initially settled on a plan to simultaneously assault the federal fishhook-shaped defense from two directions.

In the House, Republican leaders have not settled on a plan to bring the debt limit increase to a vote.