Sentence examples for settling the point from inspiring English sources

-JONATHAN SWIFT Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

Obama himself never really settled the point.

The Duke of York settled the point.

He has a way of biting off the ends of his sentences that makes them sound definitive as if the argument was settled, the point self-evident.

It is not and it needs a concerted police and intelligence operation (the army, too, needs to get off the fence) against all jihadis to settle the point of who runs the country's most populous province.

Since Hoffman is a musician, and he and Segrest have both written for such magazines as Blues Access, they must have the expertise to settle the point; as biographers, they certainly have the obligation.

But Mr. Shiller showed that actual stock prices fluctuated much more than any possible rational forecast of prospective profits; he thought that this "excess volatility" result would settle the point.

Others scholars point out that just because the Quran acknowledges slavery and early Muslims, including the Prophet, practiced it doesn't mean Muslims must always do so; indeed, the fact that slavery is illegal and no longer practiced in nearly all majority-Muslim societies would seem to settle the point.

The foremost requirement for exploring and developing any subject is to settle the point which is to be browsed,extolled and expounded.

The Swans were defeated 1-0 by Arsenal at The Emirates Stadium as a freak Andrey Arshavin goal settled the points in the first half.

In the, in fact unavoidable, event of settling, the important point is the ease of redispersion of the sediment.