verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
decide/settle sb’s/sth’s fate
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The meeting will decide the fate of the factory.
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The court’s decision settled Anderson’s fate.
decide/settle/resolve an issue (= solve it )
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The issue was settled after some tough negotiations.
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No deadline has been set to resolve the issue.
repay/settle a debt formal (= pay the money back )
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He was hoping he would soon have enough money to settle his debts.
resolve/settle a disagreement (= find a way to make people agree )
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Negotiations failed to resolve the disagreements.
resolve/settle a dispute (= end it )
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It is hoped that the dispute can be resolved peacefully.
settle a bill (= pay it )
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She went down to the lobby to settle the bill for their rooms.
settle a case (= end it finally )
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He paid a $15,000 fine to settle the case.
settle a grievance (= solve one )
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The union decided to settle its grievance in the law courts.
settle a lawsuit (= to reach an agreement that stops a lawsuit )
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I would prefer to settle the lawsuit out of court.
settle for second best
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I’m not going to settle for second best .
settle sb's stomach (= to stop it feeling uncomfortable )
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The doctor gave me some tablets to settle my stomach.
settle sth out of court (= reach an agreement without using a court )
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The matter was finally settled out of court.
settle...old scores
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Jack came back after five years to settle some old scores .
settle/resolve the matter (= decide something )
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They are meeting tonight to settle the matter.
settle/soothe sb's nerves (= make someone feel less worried or nervous )
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She hoped that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves.
slip/fall/settle into a routine (= get into a routine without making any difficulty )
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The team slipped quickly into a routine.
snow settles (= stays on the ground )
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The snow was beginning to settle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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The shares opened at 76p and quickly soared to 96p before settling back to 81p.
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With his weight settled back on the bed, Primo felt something in his back pocket.
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In just a week or so, Antoinette wrote to Soeur Dosithée: she's settled back in very well.
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When he took his hands away she settled back on the sheets, still clutching the spread.
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That done he settled back , letting the young Prince speak.
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At that time, diesel prices in California spiked briefly, but settled back down by the end of that year.
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As she settled back down it continued to cook and burst into flames.
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Oil prices then settled back to $ 17. 15 per barrel.
down
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Deep down we were full of emotion, but there was little sign of it as we settled down to our task.
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Afterward, you settle down to an evening of state-of-the-art interactive entertainment.
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I want at least four when I do finally settle down and get married.
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I wanted to make sure I settled down and not rush through things.
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In most cases the bulge settles down , as long as you have sufficient horizontal rest and take good care of your back.
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But like a lot of his rowdy friends, he is settling down .
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As I forlornly stood it upright on the table, Tam settled down opposite me.
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Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so, one morning, I settled down to make some enquiries.
finally
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I want at least four when I do finally settle down and get married.
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I finally settled on the idea of studying pharmacy.
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But Geron and the Roslin scientists could at last assure investors that the patent question was finally settled .
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Hashimoto finally settled on Wataru Kubo of the steadily disintegrating socialist party.
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The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision.
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The seismic jolt to Los Angeles home values appears to have finally settled down, way down.
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Last week the government finally settled the case for the sum of $ 508m.
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He finally settled on Reno, then the Dade Country, Fla., prosecutor.
in
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We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable.
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For a long time Alvin refused to go upstairs to the little room where the company had settled in .
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North west winds become sporadic, except in Sardinia, where the Mistral settles in.
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Jody is pacing, arms crossed tightly over her chest, waiting for everyone to settle in .
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The puppy will then settle in with relatively little difficulty as a member of the family.
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Iris will be grateful I got you settled in .
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He was only a ten minute walk from Mauve, who had promised to help him settle in .
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It was certainly a strange quarter to have settled in .
on
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I settled on one of my favourites-a simple black dress.
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The meditation program he settled on was an Eastern breath-counting exercise.
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She settled on to a purple, cotton-covered couch.
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Newsroom and management hopes have settled on Ann-Eve Pedersen, currently an assistant city editor.
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If you really can't decide, settle on about five minutes.
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But Clinton settled on Gore, the statesmanlike senator from Tennessee.
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He finally settled on Reno, then the Dade Country, Fla., prosecutor.
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Acting and horses were the only things I had settled on .
■ NOUN
account
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Schellenberg settled the account and they went outside.
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It will be an uneasy settling of accounts .
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The line through 501 indicates that Mr R. James departed after lunch settling his account of £80.15 by Access credit card.
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I merely called to settle Elise's account .
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A note on discount Cash discounts A supplier may offer a cash discount to a retailer who settles his account promptly.
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Anyone settling their account within twelve months had half the commission returned.
affair
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It aims to treat all taxpayers with equal fairness and to settle their tax affairs impartially.
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On Dec. 4 King Bhumibol made a highly unusual intervention and called on the two sides to settle the affair peacefully.
argument
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Norms defining acceptable ways for settling an argument or dispute usually exclude physical violence and manslaughter.
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I hope that all of us will take a lesson from it, to settle our arguments as quick as we can.
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Interviewer: That would settle the arguments ?
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In controversy with his opponents, he regularly uses a quotation from the Old Testament to settle the argument .
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The reference concerned a fight in the street between two youths to settle an argument .
bill
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Please that this letter as confirmation that Oxford University Press will be settling their bills for room and breakfast.
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It turned out he wanted me to settle my bill .
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But then there was nothing left to pay the drivers or to settle the mounting bills .
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But carrying large amounts of foreign currency to settle the bills is anything but a joy.
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When I got back he was at the cashier's desk settling the bill .
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I settled the bill - a pretty useful one, what with the line of brandies I had moodily consumed.
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You pick up your gear and you settle your bill .
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He settles all their Mess bills and buys them lavish presents.
case
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Last year the Department of the Environment was brought in to settle the case .
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His epileptic client eventually settled his case against the company for a confidential amount.
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However, he settled the case for an undisclosed sum in 1992.
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The land claims commission has settled more than 11,000 cases by mutual agreement on compensation.
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Last week the government finally settled the case for the sum of $ 508m.
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The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court.
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The tobacco industry has never paid damages or settled a liability case .
chair
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She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little.
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Stillman settled slowly into his chair and at last turned his attention to Quinn.
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When they came back, Nick settled into his chair and took up his book.
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As soon as he settles into his chair , he returns all telephone calls.
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With a little sigh, Caroline settled into a chair opposite and put her head back.
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The room remained quiet as he settled into his chair , adjusted his robes and pulled the microphone close.
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The first inalienable right of a trainee was to dawdle and amuse himself before he settled into his chair for the morning.
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I settled into my chair and tried to sleep.
claim
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In 1998 the federal government settled 220 claims involving priests and nuns who had been convicted of criminal abuse.
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It had set aside $ 24 million to settle claims by former managers that it had failed to pay required overtime.
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If the courts were to try to settle each claim on a case-by-case basis, it could take for ever.
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He approached the conference sponsors with a proposition: He would settle his claim without a suit for twenty-six thousand dollars.
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In all, London Underground has settled 60 out of 80 claims arising out of the disaster, to the tune of £2m.
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But they face the sale of most of the rest of their property in order to settle creditors' claims .
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Strenuous efforts were made last weekend to settle the outstanding claim of the town of Seveso itself.
court
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Preston says the tribe is looking at a precedent set in a similar incident litigated and settled out of court .
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Others have been settled out of court .
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In frustration, she talked to a lawyer and settled out of court with her former employer.
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The suit was settled out of court .
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The two sides announced that they had settled out of court .
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Riney countersued her for slander, and the two settled out of court .
debt
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I'd like to whisk her away on my white charger, but I have to settle my debts first.
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Another gives generously yet never settles his debts .
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Tam again settled his debts , and again found himself with virtually nothing left.
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The settling of Tam's debts turned out to be less difficult than I had expected.
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It's for him to come down here and settle his debts , like everybody else in the valley.
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On his return, he borrowed money from Harriet to settle debts from his continental fling.
difference
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Having settled her differences , she gave my hand a tentative lick.
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Clearly, however, we are never going to settle our religious differences with respect to education through the political process.
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It is that they are not talking because they see no way to settle their differences .
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No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.
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But Lissovsky's biggest problem is to persuade the gangsters who frequent the club to settle their differences elsewhere.
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We have to settle our differences and come together as one.
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The warring sides finally came face-to-face at a meeting designed to help them settle their differences .
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Finding nonviolent ways of settling differences between diverse groups of interests is the essence of democracy.
dispute
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Pragmatism is essentially a method of settling philosophical disputes by tracing their practical consequences.
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The army supervised the elections of 1867 and 1868 and was called in from time to time thereafter to settle scattered disputes .
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My guess was that they would find their way into the press and would undermine our efforts to settle the health dispute .
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Mercy and others who track violence see two disturbing trends, also reflected locally: Guns increasingly are used to settle disputes .
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We will consult on a Lay Adjudicators scheme to make it easier for citizens to settle disputes with service providers.
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The figures alone, however, are unlikely to settle the ongoing disputes and passions around immigration.
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Both sides are under mounting public pressure to settle the three-week dispute .
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The companies said they would not pay the fines as long as talks aimed at settling the dispute continued.
dust
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Pleased with the way dust has settled on the sieves.
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As the dust settles , significant advances can be seen in three areas.
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The car sits there while the dust settles , shimmering in the sun.
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The soil where the bombs fell had been pulverised into black dust that had settled on everything.
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They waited for the dust to settle , then rolled down the windows.
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When the dust settles , we are the enforcers, the last line of law.
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As the dust settles a chart in the back of the room catches my eye.
family
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The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life.
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There are innumerable girls from Shishu Bhawans who are now well settled , with happy families of their own.
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But Familymakers believes with proper emotional support most of them could and should settle into a new family .
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Younger black families were moving up from Watts and settling by working-class white families newly arrived from the South and the Midwest.
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In her search for herself, she had settled on these two family figures to pattern herself after.
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A N Wilson is settling for the Royal Family .
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Pat had returned to London two years earlier, unable to settle with her genteel family in Chard.
issue
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Difficult as it may be, he should attempt to settle more delicate issues .
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Naturally, a committee was formed to settle the issue .
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Next month's High Court judgement may settle the issue one way or the other.
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Hughes's resignation appears to settle that issue .
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However, the remedy did not settle the issue , and at the 1899 Brno Congress it was again in hot dispute.
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Abrams and his co-researchers, veterans of dozens of successful studies, pushed hard to settle the issue .
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What settled the issue was the rise of the pomeshchiks.
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The Maryland decision, however, did not settle the issue .
lawsuit
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BJohnson-Meszoras said that if the federal government finalizes its approval, settling her clients' lawsuit will become more difficult.
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Wright State has settled a lawsuit filed by Ralph Underhill agreeing to pay the former basketball coach about $ 125, 000.
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Meanwhile Microsoft settled one anti-trust lawsuit with an estimated payment to the software company Caldera of $ 275m.
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Stevens International Inc. said it agreed in principle to settle a class-action shareholder lawsuit against it.
matter
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The incentive to settle and clear the matter up quickly is significant.
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The state steadfastly refused to settle this matter at any time.
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But one crucial detail settles the matter .
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Once that was settled , matters took a turn toward the peculiar.
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Such excellent timing does not settle the matter , however.
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It was clear to him now that any hope of settling the longitude matter lay in the stars.
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Where policy has to be settled over such matters as public health or education, statistical and factual material is needed.
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Let us settle these delicate matters between ourselves.
question
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It remained for one of the great investigators of the Laboulbeniales to settle the question of their true affinities.
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Brains, property and character of the Negro will settle the question of civil rights.
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Indeed, it is the area of pricing which may settle the question of which to buy.
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The first question sounds like a properly scientific one; and indeed Dawkins implies that it is a settled scientific question.
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What I learnt of the Al Fayeds settled one question but raised another.
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But settling questions of language use is the job of pragmatics-the study of the use of language in context.
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Computer-assisted studies of style have often attempted to settle questions of chronology in the work of authors whose works are undated.
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That will settle any question about my tumorigenesis theory.
score
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This was my charge, and I have a score to settle .
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Old resentments were now being given scope; scores were being settled .
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She was riding with a score to settle .
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The invitations went out regularly every week; now the score was never settled .
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She had a score to settle , I grant her that.
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On 18 January 1985 there were plenty of old scores to settle .
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Second, I have a score to settle with World Security.
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Morrissey had another score to settle .
■ VERB
allow
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The flies are allowed to settle on the surface and are left to their own devices.
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The remaining fragments are allowed to settle to the bottom and then siphoned out.
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The solution is then returned to the original temperature and the precipitate which reforms is allowed to settle and then separated.
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However, wait a while you must, to allow the dust to settle .
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Miserably she allowed him to settle her in the taxi.
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It is always a good idea to keep cakes for at least a day before cutting them to allow the contents to settle .
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It also allowed the rocket to settle under the stresses produced by the mass of propellant.
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She wouldn't do it at the time, because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down.
begin
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Slowly dusk began to settle into darkness.
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Other walls began to settle too.
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Dusk broods, begins to settle but here, up high, a lake of last light trembles round her.
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Lore will never forget her first meeting with Miss Harder: After a few months the three girls began to settle down.
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As you know, blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around.
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The pavement was crowded and people had the cheerful look that comes when Spring begins to settle in.
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Then his own wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood, and he began to settle down again.
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After tea, Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury, the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord's.
help
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Occasionally - leaving any ethical questions aside - taped evidence can help to settle a point in dispute.
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He was only a ten minute walk from Mauve, who had promised to help him settle in.
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The warring sides finally came face-to-face at a meeting designed to help them settle their differences.
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So Grandma went home, my parents making the journey to help her to settle in.
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The government found it very difficult to persuade communities to help settle the Palatines.
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Emilio took some time off to help them settle in.
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The use of plants is recommended as they help settle the catfish down and provide spawning sites.
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Sometimes the wasp may even insert a small twig into the soil and jiggle it about to help settle the material.
seem
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Far from leaping from his chair and seizing Pearce by the throat, a curious fatigue seemed to have settled in his bones.
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Congress now seems inclined to settle temporarily for a catch-all budget measure that would freeze federal spending at current levels.
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Then, just when it seemed to have settled , it made a sharp sideways movement, tugging against the halter.
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As the hour wore on, a kind of trance seemed to settle over the action.
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She reached out to touch the surface, aware of a chill that seemed to have settled around her.
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By 1920 it was 10 per cent, and it seems to have settled at about this figure.
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The minutes ticked by, and the house seemed to settle for sleep.
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He seems to have settled in my San Francisco neighborhood.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let the dust settle/wait for the dust to settle
pay/settle an old score
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Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.
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There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.
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With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
settle a score
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She's got a few old scores to settle with her former friend.
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Stanford settled an old score Friday by defeating Siena 94-72.
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Boudjema believes that the opposition parties are settling a score with the Socialist government and using the schoolgirls as a scapegoat.
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Schiavo certainly deserves no credit for scaring people needlessly just to settle a score .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A look of fury settled on his face.
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After her husband's death, Jackie went to the city to settle her husband's affairs.
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Historians are unsure when the territory was first settled.
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I settled the bill and left the restaurant.
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In the end we settled the deal on very favorable terms.
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Many Jewish immigrants settled in the Lower East Side.
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Nothing is settled yet.
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Please settle this account within two weeks.
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She settled herself by an oak tree on a hill overlooking the town.
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So that settles it. We'll pay you half the purchase price now, and the rest over two years.
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The existing chimney's foundation has settled and needs to be replaced.
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The family settled in a small Nevada town where they opened a store.
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We lived in Thailand, then Singapore, and finally settled in Hong Kong.
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We talked to the carpenter to settle plans for the expansion of the restaurant.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before settling on a mandatory-guideline system, Congress considered other competing proposals for sentencing reform.
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Blue resigns himself to a long wait and then settles down with his newspapers and magazines.
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However, he settled down again and, with his assistant Brunskill, continued to rule the gallows.
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I ask the House to settle down and listen to the questions.
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Last year the Department of the Environment was brought in to settle the case.
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Once the question of the location of the state leper home was settled, the disease ceased to make headlines.
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The players need to have a chance to settle down.