A consumer proposal is a negotiated settlement between a debtor and their creditors.

Following the defeat of Japan in 1945, the war between the KMT and the CPC resumed, after failed attempts at reconciliation and a negotiated settlement.

A negotiated settlement may have ended matters: according to John of Worcester, a son of Constantine was given as a hostage to Æthelstan and Constantin himself accompanied the English king on his return south.

They do this by lowering tensions, improving communications, interpreting issues, providing technical assistance, exploring potential solutions and bringing about a negotiated settlement.

Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

This problem has subsequently proved to be a stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the ongoing conflict.

Konoe and his allies had become convinced that if the Army would only agree, in principle, to an ultimate withdrawal from China, a negotiated settlement could be reached with the United States.

A plea bargaining, also called as plea agreement or negotiated plea is an alternative and consensual way of criminal case settlement.

There commenced a period of minor skirmishes with Saladin's forces while Richard and Saladin negotiated a settlement to the conflict, as both realised that their respective positions were growing untenable.

The first civil war ended in a negotiated settlement in 1973.

His governments, with little help from the king, presided over victory in the Napoleonic Wars, negotiated the peace settlement, and attempted to deal with the social and economic malaise that followed.

Two subsequent attempts to resolve the problem by means of a negotiated political settlement by James Baker, acting as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, the first in 2000 and the second in 2003, failed to gain acceptance, the first being rejected by the Polisario and second by Morocco.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

Although he led an expedition into Maine, the result was instead a negotiated settlement arranged by a papal legate.

SDLP leader John Hume, MP, identified the possibility that a negotiated settlement might be possible and began secret talks with Adams in 1988.

He said whilst he wanted a peaceful solution, the resolution's meaning " seems to be of a negotiated settlement or compromise between two incompatible positions -— between the position which exists in international law, that the Falkland Islands and their dependencies are British sovereign territory and some other position altogether ...

At that meeting, the Contact Group released a press statement that reaffirmed its desire to work towards a negotiated settlement in the course of 2006 and also endorsed Ahtisaari's plans to develop a comprehensive proposal for a status settlement.

* In 2006, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP .. negotiated a major settlement with The American International Group on behalf of its client, C. V. Starr, a firm controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of A. I. G.

Where the issues are not complex and the parties are cooperative, a settlement often can be directly negotiated between them.

One strong argument is that Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, did not believe the Boers were preparing for war, and also believed that if Britain were to send large numbers of troops, it would strike too aggressive a posture and so prevent a negotiated settlement being reached or even encourage a Boer attack.

The Emperor took the opportunity of a settlement with the Ezzonen family and in Merseburg he negotiated a temporary peace with Poland.

A settlement is negotiated for far less than the insured amount.

A negotiated settlement may have ended matters: according to John of Worcester, a son of Constantine was given as a hostage to Æthelstan and Constantín himself accompanied the English king on his return south.

Patel negotiated a settlement that obtained the release of all prisoners and allowed nationalists to hoist the flag in public.

Desiring to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy, Congress negotiated the Articles of Confederation to establish a weak alliance between the states.

In previous agreements, the two groups have negotiated about respecting MILF camps and presence to avoid conflicts in these areas, an agreement that is prone to violation.

Many of the details of their discussions are unclear, but it appears that the churchmen emphasised that while they supported Stephen as king, they sought a negotiated peace ; Henry reaffirmed that he would avoid the English cathedrals and would not expect the bishops to attend his court.

The amount of tribute was to be negotiated and fixed permanently, to avoid the situation which had developed in the Romanian Principalities, where variable tributes had become crushing burdens and kept those two countries in poverty for two centuries.

Gwanghaegun negotiated independently for peace with the Manchus and managed to avoid another war.

However, British strategy in the early conflict included pursuit of a negotiated settlement and therefore officials declined to try and / or hang them, the usual procedure for treason, to avoid unnecessarily risking any public sympathy the British might have enjoyed in the Americas.

But it contained a provision, negotiated by Senator Charles Schumer and longtime abortion opponent Henry Hyde, providing that court judgments or fines could not be wiped out in bankruptcy: Schumer inserted this as a favor to abortion rights groups, after some abortion protesters declared bankruptcy to avoid paying fines.

To avoid this, Mr. Blakely negotiated a plea of a longer sentence while pleading guilty only to second-degree kidnapping.

The Bakufu ( Japanese central government ), led by Ogasawara Nagamichi in the absence of the Shogun who was in Kyoto, eager to avoid trouble with European powers, negotiated with France and Great Britain on July 2, 1863, on board the French warship Sémiramis, apologized and paid the indemnity to the British authorities.

Named for historian and diplomat George Bancroft ( 1800 – 1891 ), who negotiated the first of these agreements with Prussia, then known officially as the North German Confederation, the Bancroft treaties were mainly intended to prevent individuals from using naturalization as a way to avoid military service and other legal obligations in their native countries.

Critics point out that the treaty was not negotiated, but rather dictated to the British-controlled government so as to avoid any possibility of real negotiations with a post-independence government.

This process was known as negotiated nationalization, and was designed to avoid a conflict with international investors ( and ultimately with the United States ), and to allow for the acquisition of the technical, financial and marketing knowledge of the multinationals.

The Gang of 14 was a term coined to describe the bipartisan group of Senators in the 109th United States Congress who successfully negotiated a compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the so-called nuclear option over an organized use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats.

Yoshikage fled to Hiezan after the Battle of Anegawa and negotiated a reconciliation with Nobunaga and was able to avoid conflict for three years.

With these he tried to avoid Allied invasion of Italy and to obtain a negotiated Italian retrat from the war assuming a mediation of the Holy See and making strong the support that he enjoyed with influential Italian political circles.

When the vanguard of the French troops appeared on 29 January they were fired upon, but the municipal corporation of Seville negotiated a surrender to avoid bloodshed.

The Afrikaners negotiated a home-rule arrangement in the four British Colonies 10 years after the Anglo-Boer war and firmly established themselves as the ruling minority in South Africa until international pressure and increasing chaos within South Africa compelled them to dismantle their policies of exclusive control, called Apartheid.

Following the Supreme Court ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was adverse to the Bush Administration, Warner ( with Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain ) negotiated with the White House the language of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, suspending habeas corpus provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an " unlawful combatant " and barring them from challenging their detentions in court.

The expanded coalition of ruling ethnic Macedonian and ethnic Albanian political leaders, with facilitation by U. S. and European Union ( EU ) diplomats, negotiated and then signed the Ohrid Framework Agreement in August 2001, which brought an end to the fighting.

After serving a long period in Tanzania the ruling class negotiated the return of the president, Dr. Ambrose Zwane.

The court enforced the contract in favour of the option holder, ruling that the negotiations over the price of the option and the price the option holder would pay for the house if he chose to buy were both fairly negotiated and that the seller had adequate opportunity to investigate the market and simply did not do so.