Sentence examples for was used to settle from inspiring English sources

With more than 100,000 cases to be adjudicated, the government had turned to a system that was used to settle disputes between neighbors in precolonial Rwanda.

The editor of the Sunday Express today denied being the "puppet" of his boss, Richard Desmond, or that his newspaper was used to "settle vendettas".

The organisers point out that in the Old Norse, English and Dutch, an assembly was called a Ding, or Thing, and was used to settle disputes and find consensus.

Carter badly missed two dunks, but was hardly fretting a day after signing a $30 million endorsement deal with Nike, half of which was used to settle a contract dispute with Puma.

The other $4 billion of reinvestments was used to settle disputes, buy out partners, pay off debt or perform needed repairs and improvements to attract tenants and increase resale values.

The money was used to settle trades involving two big blocks of complex, mortgage-linked securities, some of which were underwritten by Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, and guaranteed by A.I.G.

Carroll uses the kinds of DNA technology that are used to settle court cases to show us the proof of evolution, clearly written in our genes.

Increasingly, AK47s – reportedly available for €500 each – are being used to settle scores.

The gold and silver in the storage center are used to settle trading in futures contracts.

A Washington Post investigation revealed that monies from the Trump Foundation have been used to settle legal disputes.

These are used to settle only a small minority of disputes.