be settled

Synonyms

dwell

Examples

No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. Hilary Putnam

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. Frank B. Kellogg

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. Dwight D. Eisenhower

All wars will be settled by sea power. Erich Raeder

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck

Words in the phrase

be settled

Close letter words and terms

be set in one's ways be set off be set out be settled in be shabby be shamefaced