1.   The two governments have settled their differences over their common border.

2.   Transactions would resume when the two governments settled mutual payments for goods supplied.

3.   As surely as the government settled the first case, it will settle the second.

4.   After several aborted efforts to refashion the KGB and make it operate by democratic rules, the Russian government has settled for changing the name.

5.   After weeks of internal wrangling, the state government in Maharashtra settled for terms not much different from what Enron offered last fall, after the project was canceled.

6.   But critics of the deal argued that the government had settled too easily, and that the consent decree was riddled with loopholes and procedural shortcomings.

7.   Experts say the government often settles for less and the odds are still in favor of not getting caught.

8.   In the end, the government settled on a far more modest reform.

9.   In the intervening years, the federal and territorial governments settled virtually all native land claims in the valley, giving tribes legal standing to negotiate rents and royalties.

10.   So the government may settle for protecting depositors when banks fail.