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Example sentences for "settle the"

  • They then separated with an understanding that a Bill should be brought in directly to settle the dispute, and they don't intend to meet again upon it till this Bill has been passed.

  • But it is clear enough that it is the intention of the Government, at all events, to settle the questions, and if the Opposition will not give way, they will.

  • Alvanley was employed to settle the quarrel, which he did, but it became necessary to instruct Baring to say something on the subject in the House of Commons, where Wallace was going to allude to it.

  • While I would propose nothing inconsistent with friendly negotiations to settle the extent of our claims in that region, yet a prudent forecast points out the necessity of such measures as may enable us to maintain our rights.

  • Captain Glasier seems to have obtained am extended leave of absence from his military duties and for three years most of his time was spent in trying to settle the society's townships.

  • If the Court had undertaken to settle the principle, I would do all I reasonably could to overthrow the decision.

  • The Missouri Compromise was intended to settle the rights of the respective sections in the territories.

  • Instead of protracted investigation into Scripture usage, painfully collating passages, to settle the meaning of terms, let every man interpret the oldest book in the world by the usages of his own time and place, and the work is done.

  • Before entering upon an analysis of the condition of servants under these two states of society, let us settle the import of certain terms which describe the mode of procuring them.

  • At one time, either at this period or subsequently, when Richard returned again to the coast, a project was formed to settle the dispute, as quarrels and wars were often settled in those days, by a marriage.

  • After a while, the two kings concluded to settle the difficulty by a sort of compromise.

  • The two princes fought for some time without any very decisive success on either side, when at length they concluded to settle the quarrel by a compromise.

  • Both Mr. Pringle and I went there to settle the preliminaries, and we found an insurmountable bar to any meeting taking place at all.

  • Why, isn't he going to be married directly to Flora, here, and am not I going to settle the whole of my property upon him on condition that he takes the name of Bell instead of Holland?

  • To settle the dispute I took charge of her myself.

  • The Duke of Bedford was sent to Paris to settle the preliminaries, and the Duc de Nivernois came to London on the same errand.

  • In this way, sir, I propose to settle the question, both as to territory and slavery, so far as it regards the Territories of the United States.

  • Well, sir, I am not entirely certain that that would settle the question.

  • The active part he took to forward the bill to settle the crown on the house of Hanover induced him to have a scroll painted in his hand, bearing the title of that bill.

  • AT Durham assize a deaf old lady, who had brought an action for damages against a neighbor, was being examined, when the judge suggested a compromise, and instructed counsel to ask what she would take to settle the matter.

  • IN the midst of a stormy discussion, a gentleman rose to settle the matter in dispute.

  • And the emperor himself was drawn into a war with Bavaria, to settle the right of succession between two rival claimants.

  • The Austrian party in England was utterly defeated, and a congress was appointed to meet at Utrecht to settle the terms of peace.

  • The kingdom was on the eve of a civil war, when death kindly came to settle the difficulty.

  • It is curious that even in 1831 a treaty had to be made to settle the claims of the United States on France for unjust seizures under these decrees.

  • Besides, I want tranquillity, to enable me to settle the affairs of the interior, and to send aid to Malta and Egypt.

  • To settle the merits of such a question is to settle the question whether the papal power in its plenitude was good or evil for society in the Middle Ages.

  • I do not attempt to settle the merits of the question, but only to describe the contest.

  • It is not for me to settle the merits of the case, if I could, only to describe the battle.

  • Did he go to Mrs. Mulready's to settle the particulars of this murder which he is said to have premeditated?

  • They overtook others bound in the same direction; and as if this were not enough proof to settle the question, they could see that a great light was beginning to flame up, making the sky glow.

  • If he says there was, of course that'll settle the matter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aside from; bank book; before mentioned; being anxious; being duly; certain pleasure; circle around; elderly lady; fine order; gold pieces; great need; its highest; legislative power; natural science; settle down; settle the; settled back; settled down; settled himself; settled right; special notice; thou only; tomato catsup; tout est; various parts; will support