Sentence examples for special settlement from inspiring English sources
The special settlement negotiated by David Cameron earlier this year was now void, they said.
The special settlement negotiated by David Cameron earlier this year was void and could not be renegotiated, they said.
As a child she was rounded up with her parents and sent to a "special settlement," where they all endured three years of severe cold, desperate poverty and isolation.
The hearings that form the core of New York's approach — special settlement conferences, which are required to try to modify mortgages to make them affordable — have become comic exercises slowed by endless paperwork, requests for additional information and the mysterious loss of documents.
As a result of the 2012 agreement, California homeowners received $18.4 billion in mortgage relief, according to a September 2013 report by a special settlement monitor appointed by Harris.
R. has been avoiding me for a week … Perhaps the bereaved ought to be isolated in special settlements like lepers".
Six million more were exiled to isolated, well-policed villages in the Siberian forest or the Kazakh desert, or to spetsposelki, special settlements.
Their "special" settlements, encircled in barbed wire, were Magnitogorsk's own small islands in the vast "Gulag archipelago" of labour camps described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Figes tells of Pavlik Morozov, a teenager said to have been killed by older family members because he had denounced his father for selling false papers to kulaks living in nearby "special settlements".
According to some estimates, 25 million people were either shot by Soviet execution squads, designated 'kulaks' and sent to special settlements or became prisoners of the gulag or slave labourers.
Appointing another 2,500 tax inspectors won't make much difference to the way tax law is enforced either, if special settlements are negotiated with companies such as Vodafone and Starbucks, and with high-earning comedians and entertainers, whereas lower earners are ordered to pay every penny due, with no room for manoeuvre.
