(n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
(n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
(n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
(n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
(n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
(n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
(n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
(n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
(n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
(n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
(n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
(n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
Example Sentences:
(1) JPMorgan did not reveal the terms of the settlement.
(2) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
(3) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(5) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(6) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(7) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
(8) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(9) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(10) The environment is going to pay a high price for its settlement in the recent spending review."
(11) In the Commons on Monday , John Whittingdale, the culture secretary who only in February chaired the committee that concluded “No future licence fee negotiations must be conducted in the way of the 2010 settlement”, ducked the invitation to explain how exactly the same thing had just happened again.
(12) An additional 200,000 Jews live in settlements in East Jerusalem.
(13) "The priorities are public order, improved lives for the people of Libya and an inclusive, peaceful settlement led by the Libyan people."
(14) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(15) HIV-1 infection was 1.5 times more common in women than in men; 2.5% of the adult population in rural villages, 7.3% in roadside settlements and 11.8% in town were infected.
(16) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
(17) Israel's illegal settlements are so entrenched that uprooting them to make way for a viable Palestinian state has become impossible.
(18) In fact, CFAs generally involve payment of a "success fee" on top of normal legal fees; the payment is not calculated as a proportion of the final settlement.
(19) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(20) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.
Settler
Definition:
(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
(2) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(3) The Civil Administration, the Israeli governing body in the West Bank, said the settlers had failed to obtain the required permit to purchase property in the occupied territory, and were therefore ordered to evacuate the house.
(4) The bill would legalise nearly 4,000 settler homes built on private Palestinian land, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now.
(5) Settler youths are rarely held in detention before trial and have access to superior legal representation.
(6) Only the Abu Aishes and another family remain on his street, alongside new settler apartment blocks and portable buildings.
(7) Since the mid-90s, settlers have established dozens of outposts to prevent the transfer of land to the Palestinians.
(8) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(9) Humanitarian settlers also benefit the wider community through developing and maintaining economic linkages with their origin countries.
(10) The ascendancy from the 70s onwards of the religious settler movement in Israel , and the rise of Hamas and other overtly Islamist Palestinian movements in the late 80s, were clear signs not only of the weakening of secular forces in both societies, but that the language of the conflict was returning to its roots.
(11) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
(12) For more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in more than 200 locations in the West Bank, the Israeli military is obliged to intervene if there is retaliatory Palestinian violence.
(13) Settlers accepted the deal at a vote in Amona’s synagogue on Sunday.
(14) Assam, a tea-growing Indian state that borders Bhutan and Bangladesh, has a long history of often violent land disputes between the indigenous Bodo tribes, Muslim settlers and the Adivasi community.
(15) The Israeli authorities are accused of structuring their security operations to minimise the cost to the settlers of the campaign of harassment, intimidation and violence.
(16) The defence minister, Ehud Barak, should resign, says David Ha'ivri of the Shomron Liaison Office, a regional settlers' body.
(17) In a boost to the settlers, Netanyahu demanded the eviction be delayed to allow an investigation, for which no timeframe was given.
(18) Cooke reflects that: "When Gove talks about school discipline, he is talking to Settlers.
(19) Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, has had little to show his people: with more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the continued expansion of settlements, there are growing doubts over the viability of a two-state solution.
(20) Referring to the rise in tensions, Barghouti writes: “The escalation did not start with the killing of two Israeli settlers,” referring to the shooting of a husband and wife in front of their children.