Following charges of illegal marketing, settlements by two large pharmaceutical companies in the US set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations.

Claims under the law have typically involved health care, military, or other government spending programs, and dominate the list of largest pharmaceutical settlements.

The three largest settlements, Modi ' in Illit, Maale Adumim and Betar Illit, have achieved city status, with over 30, 000 residents each.

This was followed by a succession of settlements from 4500 BCE onward, the largest being constructed in 2600 BCE.

The enclosed area had more than 100, 000 inhabitants ( maybe closer to 150, 000 ), about twice as many as Babylon at the time, placing it among the largest settlements worldwide.

Great Barrier Island in 2006 had a permanent population of around 850, primarily in coastal settlements such as Tryphena, the largest settlement in Tryphena Harbour at the southern end of the island.

* Mada ' in Saleh in Saudi Arabia is the second largest and southernmost of this civilization's settlements

Urban planning designs settlements, from the smallest towns to the largest cities.

In absolute terms, Letterkenny has the largest number of Protestants ( over 1000 ) and is the most Presbyterian town ( among those settlements with more than 3000 people ) in the Republic of Ireland.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

Most of the County is drained by the Tygart Valley River which traverses it from south to north and on which its three largest settlements — Philippi, Belington, and Junior — are sited.

European colonists reached the Gulf and Pacific coasts, but the largest settlements were by the English on the Atlantic coast, starting in 1607.

Treknow is the largest of the other settlements in the parish, which include Trethevy, Trebarwith, Tregatta, Trenale and Trewarmett.

Of the two settlements on the island the largest is Cambridge Bay, which lies on the south-east coast and is in Nunavut.

Many towns in Ethiopia are named after biblical Israel settlements, including Ethiopia's third largest city of Nazret ( Adama ).

Built around 2600 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, existing at the same time as the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete.

It contains 21 incorporated settlements ; the county seat is the largest city, Danville.

The largest Múscraí settlements are the villages of Baile Mhic Íre ( Ballymakeera ), Baile Bhuirne ( Ballyvourney ) and Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh ( Ballingeary ).

One of their largest settlements was at nearby Saticoy, because of the bubbling springs that were found there.

Pineland was the location of one of the largest and oldest native Florida settlements, established at least 2, 000 years ago and used by a slowly evolving sequence of cultures.

On June 28, 1895, voters from the settlements of Port Oram, Irondale, Luxemburg, Maryville and Mount Pleasant voted 143 to 51 to incorporate as the borough of Port Oram, the largest of the communities in the area covering west of Dover, New Jersey.

* Peterborough, the largest of the many settlements along the fen edge and sometimes called the " Gateway to the Fens "; its cathedral is one of the Fen Five monasteries ; administrative centre of the Peterborough Unitary Authority ;

The largest of these secondary settlements was Fredericksburg, 80 miles to the northwest of New Braunfels.

It is the area along the river with the largest number of human settlements due to its proximity to the river.

The largest of these include Vredefort Crater, Sudbury Crater, Chicxulub Crater, and Manicouagan Crater.

Sudbury was also one of the largest carnation-growing towns, with many greenhouse operations.

Greater Sudbury, 29 per cent francophone, has the largest proportion of Franco-Ontarians to the general population among the province's major cities, and Timmins, 41 per cent francophone, has the largest proportion among smaller sized cities.

At, Timmins was Canada's largest municipality in land area until 1995, when the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, was created, although it remained the largest municipality in Ontario until 2001, when it was superseded by the newly amalgamated cities of Kawartha Lakes and Greater Sudbury.

However, the annexation of this latter area into the city resulted in Lake Wanapitei supplanting Lake Ramsey, near downtown Sudbury, as the world's largest lake contained entirely within the boundaries of a single city.

It expanded through the acquisition of non-metropolitan cable systems in Canada through the 1990s — notably Northern Cable in 1998, which gave the company two of the largest markets, Sudbury and Timmins, that it ever served as an independent company — and changed its corporate name to Persona in 2001.

The school, part of the Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario, services the francophone community and is the largest population-wise in the entire City of Greater Sudbury, amalgamated three separate French Catholic elementary schools: St-Joseph, Jacques-Cartier and Monseigneur-Côté.

With the municipal amalgamation of Greater Sudbury in 2001, it became the largest lake in the world completely contained within the boundaries of a single city.

The Superstack sits atop the largest nickel smelting operation in the world at Inco's Copper Cliff processing facility in the city of Greater Sudbury.

Until 2001, Lake Ramsey was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest lake located entirely within the boundaries of a single city, but when the Regional Municipality of Sudbury was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury, Lake Ramsey lost this status to the larger Lake Wanapitei, approximately 20 kilometres to the northeast.

East Bergholt and Hadleigh are the largest villages in the Stour Valley, a region historically known for its manufacture of linens The nearest town and railway station, a few miles away, is Manningtree, Essex.

There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

The largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds.

The largest South Atlantic basins are the Angola, Cape, Argentina, and Brazil basins.

The three largest communities above the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia: Murmansk ( population 325, 100 ), Norilsk ( 135, 000 ), and Vorkuta ( 85, 000 ).

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25, 000 species, and the Campanulaceae (" Bellflowers "), with about 2, 000 species.

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

The largest applications for metallic antimony are as alloying material for lead and tin and for lead antimony plates in lead-acid batteries.

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The largest genera are Allium ( 260-690 species ), Nothoscordum ( 25 ), and Tulbaghia ( 22 ).

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

The North Kuril Ainu of Zaporozhye are currently the largest Ainu subgroup in Russia.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.