In the construction of high-rise buildings and geological sensitive areas, it's important to make settlement observation for buildings and nearby ones so as to control the quality of construction.

在高层建筑及地质敏感地区建筑物施工过程中，对施工建筑物及其周边地区建筑物进行垂直位移监测即沉降观测工作，是对建筑物施工质量控制的一个重要手段。

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But last October, Google reached a one hundred twenty-five million dollar legal settlement to also make parts of some copyrighted books available.

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Now, recruiting is tremendously important because you need to have a certain number of settlers to make the settlement viable.

招募是极其重要的,因为你需要有一定数量的移民,来维持居住地的运转

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Yet the Mormons continued to work hard to make their settlement a success.

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"The government would have to back off these high-powered remedies and Microsoft would have to make additional concessions" to make a settlement possible, he said.

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But the phrase had been in earlier use in England in the 1700s, where brokers on the London Stock Exchange called you a lame duck if you tried to go on trading securities after you had failed to make good on settlement.

NPR: Lawmakers Have Full Plate for Lame-Duck Session

The goal is to strongarm Chevron into a settlement just to make the whole mess go away.

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