Sentence examples for usually to settle from inspiring English sources

Occasionally I would read a piece to my wife, usually to settle an argument about what we had or hadn't done.

Given the negative economic consequences — lost paychecks for workers and lost business for employers — the economically rational thing for both sides is usually to settle before the walkout starts.

Buddhist councils are usually convened to settle doctrinal disputes or to accept revisions of texts.

The U.N. usually tries to settle conflicts through diplomacy and the use of non-combat troops.

Thus we know that in medieval soccer, matches were usually held to settle some kind of local feud.

What you usually have to settle for, particularly in politics, is some kind of theory, ranging from the conspiratorial to the wild and woolly to the, occasionally, plausible.

"Weeks can go by without shipping a game, so you usually have to settle for not exactly what you are looking for.

Few, if any, cases have gone to trial, according to a review of electronic court records; the defendants usually agree to settle, often in less than six months, closing the cases at a breakneck pace for federal court.

Binding promises of confidentiality are routine because parties are usually motivated to settle disputes before they turn into lawsuits or go public, and many feel that nondisclosure is integral to buying peace.

And galleries usually prefer to settle them out of court, away from the headlines that have dogged Marlborough since the legal spectacle between its New York gallery and the children of Rothko, the Abstract Expressionist, who committed suicide in 1970.

By the time breakfast was over, we were usually ready to settle into the swimming-pool-size outdoor Jacuzzi, tucked inconspicuously into a spot between our veranda and the dunes.