How To Use Settle In A Sentence

The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
Begin by placing the cordial container on a level surface to allow the sediment to settle.

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The ICR would have the authority to annul laws or dismiss public officials to uphold the Kosovo settlement.
The original Auroran settlers had landed in the location that was now the park and decided to keep it as a peaceful retreat in the centre of the city.
His work underscores the aeriality embedded in the rational geometric order of the regions settlement.
A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
Hunt thinks it unlikely that the currency will break parity with the dollar next year, and feels it is likely to settle around the $0.92 level.
They died before they had an opportunity to be interviewed and considered for resettlement.
Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation.
But the settlements prevailed, delusory shortcuts to a palpable proof that the Jewish people were truly blessed by God. The Chosen Peoples
Portuguese later acquired the property and turned it into the European-style Leal Senado Building for municipal chamber and the front square for Portuguese settlers to hold festive celebrations.
An hour later, a broomstick settled gently on the lawn.
The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax.
The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
It was settled when incoming workers agreed to work permanent night shifts.
His quiet voice was commanding and proved effective as the pair settled down.
Excavations of the site have revealed an Iron Age settlement.
Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
Companies make use of sokaiya to settle many kinds of trouble, to collect underground information, and to suppress common shareholders.
Settlers brought with them the idea of land as a partible, bounded commodity, owned by an individual (or self-selected partnership), transferable, and exclusive in perpetuity. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
an arbitrational settlement
Ultima will clean the inside of the glass panels, because the outside is coated with a self-cleaning laminate, which doesn't allow dust or dirt to settle.
In the mid-1830s the Kendall settlers gave impetus to the westward movement of Norwegians by founding a settlement in the Fox River area of Illinois.
The majority of the new settlers lived in rural areas and earned their living through farming.
I settled onto the sand of the now gently sloping reef.
By mid 1843 matters had improved and many of the settlers had cattle, sown a crop and found time, money and labour to build substantial houses.
There are no permanent settlements in the Qattara Depression. Saharan halophytics
In America, gift giving at Christmastime began in the 17th century when early Dutch settlers introduced St. Nicholas to the New World. St.
They signed a treaty to settle all border disputes by arbitration.
Marshy tongues of land determined property lines more than geometric principles of land settlement.
After being housed in transit camps, many of the immigrants were directed to agricultural settlements (moshavim) (Zadok 1985; Lisak 1999). Yemenite Women in Israel: 1948 to the Present Day.
Lets meet with the government and see how we can settle this problem so that it is a win-win situation for all.
He was joined by a group of fishermen from Asere, the core Ga settlement in pre-colonial Accra.
Early settlement discounts will vary from one supplier to another, but you can usually expect to obtain a maximum of 5 per cent off the total purchasing price.
The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone. Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
So my advice is, settle on a style that works for you doing online research at Zappos, 6pm, and shoes.com might help, then look for the best quality you can afford; don't be too proud to look in the "markdown" stores. A Word on Shopping
It is arguably too tight now, making the car seem unsettled on small bumps and unpleasant on larger ones. Times, Sunday Times
A bird settled on his palm.
Using 40 players has not helped and the change of manager unsettled the team. Times, Sunday Times
His gaze settled on her face.
We have so many quaint old settler cottages as well as grand Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
Last year it settled charges that it illegally billed excessive fees and violated consumer protection regulations.
The ancient way to settle a quarrel was to choose a leader from each side and let them fight it out.
Over 1,400 cities, towns and settlements have been found so far, with about 900 in India.
The landscape was well ordered with fields defined by hedges and ditches, trackways linking settlements, and unenclosed grazing areas beyond the more intensively used enclosed land.
“Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says I, offering it to him on the tip of my cane, “and we’ll arrange time and place when you have put your jasey in order.” Novels by Eminent Hands
The paper analyzes the evolution of Straits Settlements governments policy to overseas Chinese secret society.
The welfare/workfare transition thus represents an example of qualitative restructuring in state institutions and regulatory settlements.
Even after all these thousands of years of human settlement, the vastness of Majipoor was such that ample room for expansion still remained. LORD PRESTIMION
You will need to submit final meter readings and settle any outstanding bill with your old supplier. Times, Sunday Times
We cannot settle for non-proliferation or a nuclear freeze. Times, Sunday Times
Settlers of every nation are embedded in the STZs subterrestrial zones. Deeper
'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance. Times, Sunday Times
CT guided needle biopsy settle on qualitative diagnosis.
In frustration, she talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
Some redistricting after the 1990 census was not settled until 1996, he said. Houston Chronicle
Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
Co-star Steve McFadden, who plays Phil Mitchell, settled for a bomber jacket with blue jeans.
I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.
Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest. Genre Fiction
When are you going to get married and settle down?
Not surprisingly, Metung attracted a number of distinguished early holiday-makers, some of whom settled there permanently, including the explorer and mineralogist Dr. Alfred Howitt; His Honour Judge John Burnett Box; and John King, the second son of Rear Admiral Philip Parker King. Archive 2009-01-01
Some see this fishing equipment as evidence for boat-building technology that may have allowed for initial human settlement of the Americas by sea rather than by the Bering land bridge.
I will ask attorneys to help the students settle any legal disputes stemming from this incident.
Children often feel unsettled if their parents divorce.
I arrived here with my wife of 26 years and three children, and with no idea where the will of God would lead us to settle to begin planting a Reformed Baptist church.
The crow remained still until it suddenly beat its wings but soon settled again watching Ari closely.
She settled the blanket around her knees.
A red-roofed settlement lost in the green hills of the southern Charente, around 500 kilometers from Paris, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne's main feature is not immediately visible. Visiting Charm-Guaranteed French Villages
After the settlers left, the area reverted to desert.
He looked around the garden which was familiar to him from photographs and films from the initial stages of landscaping and even prior to that, when the Saadhu first settled down here in the uncleared jungle.
The case was settled out of court two weeks ago. Times, Sunday Times
Middle-class families needed capital and credit, and marriage had considerable importance in bringing in funds through dowries and marriage settlements, and giving access to credit networks.
They knew that some of the people inside of this settlement were armed, and perhaps prepared to use those arms.
The weather will remain unsettled for the rest of the week. Times, Sunday Times
When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
The squalid conditions in the shack settlements drive many to despair. Times, Sunday Times
That the islands are still an agreeable place to live is not in doubt, despite US claims that resettlement is unfeasible.
She has been accused of trying to get her former brother-in-law dismissed from the police force to settle a personal score. Times, Sunday Times
An arbitrator was called in to settle the dispute and sided with the Flyers.
_ A person who presides at backsword or singlestick, to regulate the game; an umpire: a person who settles disputes. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
They settled in metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, and formed organized ethnic enclaves throughout the nation.
During the boat ride, he pointed out the site of a former Maori pa, a fortified settlement hidden in the bush where warriors had hauled their canoes high up the cliffs to protect them from saboteurs.
Using 40 players has not helped and the change of manager unsettled the team. Times, Sunday Times
A large number of those who migrated across the new border to India were resettled in Delhi.
The funds did not admit or deny wrongdoing as part of the settlement. Times, Sunday Times
The Ontario government, backed by other provincial governments, argued against the lower court rulings, saying the Metis existed as a community only after European settlers arrived in Canada.
Notice concerning time limitation of providing foreign exchange settlement document for export business by export enterprises.
European settlers nearly wiped them out and mass battles ensued with cowboys. The Sun
The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves. Archive 2007-10-01
Michigan and Wisconsin have the largest population of Belgian Americans, with the above-named Wisconsin counties having the largest rural settlement in the United States.
Through such models, some understanding can be gained of the way in which many settlements formerly operated in their local landscape.
She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
It was in this fortalice that Kornati fisherman left money for fish tax and the hard lifestyle of a fisherman forced them to build settlements on the nearby island of Piskera.
Dr Owen might have added, I suppose, that a necessary interest in the private lives of public figures was a feature even of powerful monarchies, where wedding-night consummation was a dynastic issue to be settled with the production of the kind of gloopy evidence now entertaining audiences for forensic science TV shows such as Top stories from Times Online
dust settled on the roofs
Their acclimation in these rural settlements proved difficult due to both their lack of agricultural experience and their traditional social structure which went counter to the principles of the moshav. Yemenite Women in Israel: 1948 to the Present Day.
What is more worrying is that many legal and ethical issues are yet to be settled, eg should autonomous cars continue to have a driver? Times, Sunday Times
Is there a chance of a negotiated settlement to the conflict?
Slowly I settled against him and I listened to his breathing; it was raspy and every once in a while he would cough, but he still held me tight.
Yet, with this effort falling flat, somehow I feel like life has settled into a loose conjunction with all things kismet, karma, and generally astrologically-aligned.
She circled back and settled gracefully to earth at the spot where the trampling began. A Time of War
Sullenly, Andrea settled down into her seat and grumbled something incoherent.
Under each there were a number of public offices, called bureaux, where business was prepared, and where the smaller matters were practically settled. The Eve of the French Revolution
Would you like to settle up now, sir?
So we are to reshape the system and introduce a network of resettlement prisons all around the country. Times, Sunday Times
We are settled in our couch potato ways. Times, Sunday Times
In some cases there are calls for a new constitutional settlement.
The accumulative total settlement less than tradition soft foundation consolidation method.
The Oregon Trail was a computer game where you had to navigate your family across the country to settle in uncharted lands in the west.
His films do not pander to escapism or to the audiences settled expectations about entertainment.
He settled in Baltimore and was appointed to the collectorship of the port, by the Governor of the State, the duties of which he discharged with the same exemplary fidelity which had attended his military career. A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851
The crew took the Pacific Emerald for wrecking but the second part of the settlement was never honoured.
Man who has a settled purpose will surely succeed.
Egg claims that 70% of loans are paid off early but, in spite of this, four out of five lenders penalise borrowers for early settlement.
Not even big humps can unsettle the Hydractive suspension which also stops the car rolling severely in tight bends.
Public opinion in March, 1861, was so unsettled, the popular mind so impressible, that a spirit of discontent soon began to spread over the loyal States on the part of those who had hoped for what they termed a vigorous administration. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
Lai let her hand rest on his chest and almost out of reflex he let his hand rest on hers, gripping it lightly as he shifted and settled more relaxedly in her grasp.
Some 35 families are local resettlers (Irian Jaya families), while the rest are transmigrants from Java.
Man who has a settled purpose will surely succeed.
Dale received all the attention and accolades, and Link settled for a few extra bucks on his royalty checks.
Connel placed the spool of tape in the audiograph and settled in a chair to listen. Danger in Deep Space
That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage, if she was honest.
The original settlers are the Indians.
He had been accepted to a good college somewhere in Florida and would be leaving in a few short months to get settled into a dorm.
built their nests" in the tree: the Greek word has no such meaning; the word merely means "to settle or rest upon" anything for a longer or shorter time; nor is there any occasion to suppose that the expression "fowls of the air" denotes any other than the smaller insessorial kinds -- linnets, finches, etc. Smith's Bible Dictionary
The two countries are negotiating for a peaceful settlement.
Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
The exploitation of the oil fields has further complicated matters and pushed the possibility of a peaceful settlement further away.
Brunswick and Maine to regulate their future proceedings according to the terms hereinbefore set forth until the final settlement of the territorial dispute or until the Governments of the United States and A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
He had intimated to the French and Russians his readiness to come to a settlement.
And now this settlement and atonement was handselled and was well kept afterwards. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
Behind the settle, there would be a round table with a white tablecloth. Times, Sunday Times
There was an explosion in the town hall shop of Settle tinner L Jackson.
Will it meet the expectations of nurses, who want the government to settle their claim for pay parity in the same way it did for teachers in 2002?
This lithograph by Petre shows the dwellings to be more substantial dwellings than the whares the settlers would have actually used.
The silt is the next heaviest particle, and should settle during the next four hours.
BELGRADE Reuters – A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theater to settle their dispute outside, the daily Politika reported Wednesday. Surgeons leave surgery for a fist fight | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time
At the sound, the birds rise from their night places; they clap their wide, black wings and settle again.
The mesh bags are an easy way to move cultch to the right place and time for larval settlement.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Daniel 'Rudy' Ruettiger, pictured in 2005, whose experience as a Notre Dame football walk-on inspired the movie, settled SEC allegations that he took part in a pump-and-dump stock scheme. SEC Tackles 'Rudy' in Fraud Case
It would be ridiculous to expect such a circus to settle major public issues.
He settled for a pack of cheese crackers with peanut butter inside.
A principle of inquiry can not be something that may keep us from recognizing a clear and settled conception.
The ancient way to settle a quarrel was to choose a leader from each side and let them fight it out.
Beyond this load with further settlement of piled raft, the piles start carrying the load.
It is also suggested that the reef may be a source of pelagic larvae of sessile organisms that may settle on mangrove roots for greater diversity.
In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
Once she's changed into the hospital gown and settled in the bed, we're allowed to sit with her until it's time for the operation.
The area was resettled in the latter half of the century.
Still less do we need to try and settle that rivalry by calling one of them real and the others more or less illusory.
Control over the distribution of cocaine has been settled in the hillside slum communities.
Photo: Jerusalem mayor told to 'evict' Silwan settlers Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
On June 9, the intrepid Curry will settle in behind the big desk of NBC's top-rated morning show, where she'll succeed Meredith Vieira as Matt Lauer's coanchor. The Biz: Ann Curry's New Today Role
Medical screening is but a small part of the effort that must be made to resettle the refugees.
He carded a four-round total of 280, with Bob Charles - who finished two shots off the pace - having to settle this time round for the runner-up position.
It's time you settled your differences with your father.
Canada it was voted by the English Parliament to reannex the territory northwest of the Ohio to Canada and to permit the settlers to share in the rights and privileges of the Canadian province. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution
The full settlement will be listed as an exceptional item in the retailer's full-year results next month. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond the horse paddock, a troop of capybaras, pig-size aquatic rodents, emerged from the tree line and settled serenely into a wallow.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin
The relation of the lord to the vassals had originally been settled by express engagement, and a person wishing to engraft himself on the brotherhood by _commendation_ or _infeudation_ came to a distinct understanding as to the conditions on which he was to be admitted. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
It is essential that sustainable agriculture be developed in the areas already deforested and settled.
Now the silence settled over the garden was thick and heavy, a stark contrast to the chirping and tweeting he was so accustomed to.
They were settled into a den in the ape and monkey pavilion, which will be their quarters during six months of quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
Some are happy to go round alone while others use golf to settle grudges with colleagues. The Sun
Even as he watched them he felt the last remnants of his love curdle and settle into thick hatred. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Settled couples agree on new goals for the partnership and feel really close again. The Sun
These assumptions often provoke heated disagreements because it is so hard to find anyplace to look to settle them.
The House and Senate bills also contain provisions giving faltering companies less time to settle their debts and reorganize.
Since independence the term indigenous, widely used in an affirmative action campaign, has applied almost exclusively to blacks and left out whites and other minorities born in the southern African nation - some the descendants of several generations of settlers. ANC Daily News Briefing
The exposure and _depluming_ (to borrow a good word from the fine old rhetorician, Fuller,) of the leading 'humbugs' of the age -- _that_ was announced as the regular business of the journal: and the only question which remained to be settled was, the more or less of the degree; and also one other question, even more interesting still, viz. -- whether personal abuse were intermingled with literary. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
He needs to settle down and show maturity. The Sun
The 1976 Immigration Act made family reunification and refugee settlement two of Canada's fundamental objectives.
But then I needed their attentiveness, as I was collapsed and semi-conscious at the top of a frozen wasteland, the nearest settlement being miles down the mountain.
Pending a settlement, the status quo of the boundary should be maintained.
He settled back, shut his eyes, began to mutter.
As things stood at the beginning of 1990, Mrs Adam's life was reasonably settled and happy, taking into account her age and physical infirmity.
Legal settlement reached in tainted pet food case" [Reuters UK] (Photo: faster panda kill kill) Pet Food Companies Agree To $24 Million Settlement Over Killer Pet Food - The Consumerist
The western Great plains was largely settled at this time, and yield rich harvests of wheat.
It shall be no offence for you to divorce your wives before the marriage is consummated or the dowry is settled.
Wrestling now with conflicting emotions, she settled for anger. A WORM OF DOUBT
Natural theology settled philosophical foundation of modern science in the aspects as ontology, epistemology, methodology. Actually it is "prior science" of modern science.
Constructing Ballista Towers atop settlement walls allows a defending force to shower any attackers with iron bolts, a sensible improvement for almost any siege scenario.
The new salary deal for railway workers will be a bench mark for pay settlements in the public sector.
He played it as he shaped it: the last low string whose reverberations set his own sword belling in anguish and shattered every other weapon inside and out of the halt Silence settled like old dust over the room. Harpist in the Wind
Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
By the time we settled into our beachside abode, I was in great danger of gnawing my own arm off with hunger.
With a sigh Aislinn turned and slowly entered the thicket herself, knowing he must settle the problem himself within his own mind. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Legal experts said her case would not set a precedent because it was an out-of-court settlement.
Megan drove back to her place feeling exhaustion and depression settle in.
I guess those peasants in Michigan will just have to settle leftovers, secondary effects: crumbs from the table of your very own economic stimulus, if you will. Matthew Yglesias » Infrastructure Spending Not Targeted to High-Unemployment States: But Should It Be?
In the early spring of 1762 Hazen joined the pioneers with a party of settlers who built a primitive sawmill and gristmill and constructed rude shelters.
The locale was initial settled around 1740 by Moravian missionaries to a native Mahican village of Shekomeko. Archive 2009-11-01
The corporate bond market remains unsettled, with junk spreads widening again this week.

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