Sentence examples for unprecedented settlement from inspiring English sources

"This is an excellent and unprecedented settlement that demonstrates the government's serious commitment to delivering on its promises to tackle global poverty," said Douglas Alexander, secretary of state for international development.

The subsequent public outcry and malpractice suit resulted in an unprecedented settlement award.

A year and 2 months have passed since the regents of the University of California (UC) system reached an unprecedented settlement with the district attorney of Los Angeles County in the criminal case against the university arising from the death of 23-year-old lab assistant Sheri Sangji from burns suffered in a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) chemistry laboratory.

The Justice Department has reached an unprecedented settlement with Cleveland over what they said was a pattern of unconstitutional policing and excessive use of force.

While the unprecedented settlement for a president-elect is presumably a bigger deal, the "Hamilton" spat got more attention that weekend on cable news. .

Building on the unprecedented settlement his office reached in 2014 with Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company, over misleading statements the company made to investors and the public regarding climate change, it now is conducting a similar investigation into the practices of Exxon.

Instead, this being America, General Pinochet would probably have faced a lawsuit for millions of dollars in civil damages.On April 29th, a federal judge is expected to endorse an unprecedented $150m settlement between the estate of Ferdinand Marcos, former dictator of the Philippines, and thousands of victims of human-rights abuses committed by his regime.

The Guardian columnist George Monbiot has reached what he called an "unprecedented" libel settlement with Lord McAlpine, pledging to carry out three years of charity work as recompense for Twitter messages that wrongly linked the former Conservative chairman with an allegation of child sex abuse.

Geographers like Peter Hall (1966) identified polycentric "world cities" and Gottmann (1961) coined the term Megalopolis to describe an unprecedented urban settlement.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu and his allies in the Israeli Knesset are planning a period of "unprecedented" new settlement construction.

Israel has offered direct talks, recognised a two-state solution and introduced an unprecedented moratorium on settlement construction.