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Settled in sentence

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We were pretty much settled on "Walk The Line" until we saw this.
He could have settled for another billion!
I had only recently settled down to watching this one which has just been issued on DVD in France.
One night while in my local video rental outlet I settled for "Dead Boyz Can't Fly" because reviews touted it as the "Clockwork Orange for the 90's," one of my favorites, I thought it might be another "Warriors."
Just forget the story, tolerate the acting performances and you're settled for a good action ride.
She is a little older than her fresh-faced "Only You" days, but time has settled kindly on her, giving her more character instead of so-called 'flaws.'
Had Magnum P.I. settled down with any woman in particular, I think it would have spoiled the dynamic of the show.
If Tom had settled down during the show, the show would have been over.
After adjusting to the American accents (which add to the humour, because the "Scottish Play" is never actually performed with the appropriate burr anyway), I settled in for an enjoyable 90 minutes of sight gags, over-the-top characters, and word-play that was reminiscent of some of our better television programmes.
Struggling in the mid-seventies just before the blockbuster era settled in, Hollywood looked back to its history for material, and this was one of the results.
Parliament settled on 28 days – still the longest such period in the Western world.
But this can not happen unless the issue of four islands, the Kuriles, taken by Stalin in the waning days of WWII is settled.
By 1993, however, President Yeltsin was talking tougher: "Let this be settled in the next century, by future generations," he argued in a speech before Oryol University students.
According to a report from the Insurance Information Institute, nearly 70% of homeowners’ claims in Louisiana were settled by the end of January, for a total of $7.5 billion dollars.
Conservatives believe that the revealed law was settled during the glorious days of Islam, and that individual interpretation should therefore be restricted.
In the end, the decision on the quota system was settled by majority vote, rather than the usual – and much preferred – rule of consensus (though the majority was large, with only four of 28 countries opposed).
What still needs to be settled is a clear understanding of what the constitution is meant to achieve.
Their wager had settled absolutely nothing.
The Rise of Shia PetrolistanNow that the dust of the Gulf War has settled over the Middle East, it is clear that some unexpected winners have emerged, blinking in the sunlight.
A year ago, after the blitz victory in the four-week Iraq War, many people thought the issue was settled.
Afterwards, many of my relatives, prosperous Indian merchants who had been settled in Myanmar for generations, abandoned homes and businesses in order to save their skins as chaos enveloped the city, later renamed Yangon.
Each time he sprayed, a mist settled on everything.
Had China really wanted to grab a bigger share of world exports, it is hard to imagine that its policymakers would have settled for such a modest adjustment.
Europeans truly believed that the Great Game between Russia and the West was settled in 1991.
But global conditions this year are anything but traditional, so it seemed appropriate to wait until US President Donald Trump settled into the White House to weigh in on some of the main surprises that might shake up the world economy and financial markets on his watch.
Kim ultimately settled for another way to express his leadership: arresting his uncle (and the regime’s China hand) at a party meeting and putting him to death.
When the dust settled, it turned out that American, Dutch, and other importers all suffered roughly the same degree of shortfall and paid the same damaging high price.
Russia supported a so-called “autonomy-movement” in northeast Estonia, which is populated mostly by ethnic Russians who settled there during Soviet times.
Avoiding new tension with Taiwan appears to have been a calculated decision by China’s leaders as they begin their own – perhaps not yet fully settled – changing of the guard.
Some have called him liberal; others, moderate; most finally settled on centrist.
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