Sometimes a person fights a battle that has been decided or keeps arguing a question that has been settled.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Jake Rohrer says everything is settled with a handshake based on the Hawaiian tradition of pono.

VOA: special.2011.05.09

Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

They settled in a camp near the Onion River in the state of Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

She settled in a protected area between two mountains,Karisimbi and Visoke.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

Born in Belzoni,Mississippi, Pinetop left home to work as a sideman across the Southern U.S., and eventually settled in Chicago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

But the matter is far from settled. President Sarkozy wants parliament to pass a nonbinding resolution, rather than a law.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Eight years into the Afghan war, Afghan troops and their U.S.advisers have settled into a sometimes tense relationship.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

The family settled in California, near a large military base, and that has a lot to do with where Alexei is now.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Irvine-Halliday settled on a one watt bright white light, a Japanese product he discovered on the Internet.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

At age 16,she settled in Toronto,Canada, where she gained a steady following on the local jazz scene.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

After three years in Egypt, they arrived in Australia in 2003 and settled in a Melbourne suburb.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

On the advice of a friend, Chopin settled in France.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

(SAYING) This month, Spiegler and his art law colleagues at New York from Herrick,Feinstein in settled one of art law's most vexing, prolonged cases for the heirs of a Jewish Austrian art dealer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26