Alternatively, lawmakers could settle on a serious but limited down payment, which could be a predicate for thrashing it out in 2012.
I wish I could settle on one shirt or one pair of shoes I really liked and just buy them for the rest of my life. .
They could decide there is no justice and the universe is basically unfair; or they could settle on one of the Judeo-Christian versions, all of which give us one chance to get it right before facing a zero sum, binary verdict: the fiery furnace or Club Med for eternity, as Norman Mailer, a believer in reincarnation, once described it.
If forced, I could settle on one, but I would rather not.
Moreover, while any collector who buys Gursky in depth could settle on one or two of a number of stock-exchange images Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuwait and four different works made in Chicago there are only two versions of "99 Cents", the single photo and the diptych.
Mr. Yeltsin could settle on a compromise candidate.
But in the negotiation, the I.R.S. might get more because they could settle on $28 million".
Now Mr Sanborn is worried that the religious and spiritual overtones of Brown's books could settle on his sculpture.
But before scientists could settle on those bodies as the source of the planet's water, they had to solve another problem.
Some wondered if readers in New York, the capital of literary disputation, could settle on a single book.
For southerners seemed insistently anxious to define their culture, even though they could settle on little or none of its defining characteristics.
