The firms hope that such a settlement would resolve the entire issue with all regulators.

The settlement also resolved several other disputes in other countries.

A legal settlement does not resolve scientific questions about the safety of the implants.

The 2007 settlement resolved an ongoing dispute that began in 2003.

The settlement will resolve the claims of 184 passengers and their families.

A settlement here would not resolve other investigations and settlement discussions now under way.

Such feelings show that the tentative settlement does not wholly resolve the issue.

Still, the settlement may not resolve the company's legal quandaries.

The settlement would resolve differences over financial issues for financing three pension plans of the company's steel unit.

The $6.5 million settlement resolves the majority of the cases that have been lodged against the diocese since early 2002.