That suggests a different motive: a desire finally to draw a line under the banking crisis.
The supermarket chain says it hoped the new settlement would draw a line under the affair.
Due process has been satisfied and I now intend to draw a line under the matter.
The prime minister's official spokesman attempted on Monday to draw a line under the Mittal row.
Shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran said a referendum should draw a line under the issue of independence.
Andrew Mitchell and No 10 hoped that his on camera apology would draw a line under this story.
Destroying the Bushes, currently the main beneficiaries of the southern strategy, would draw a line under the affair.
Hodgson said he and Gerrard wanted to draw a line under the matter.
Cynical folk may suspect that HealthSouth's new bylaw is partly intended to draw a line under the firm's past scandals.
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Merlin Attractions Operations, based in Poole, Dorset, said it "chose to plead guilty and draw a line under this incident".
"There's a sense of satisfaction at the verdicts but they want to draw a line under the whole thing, " he said.
Hoping to draw a line under last year's crisis, the Bahraini royal family has staked its reputation on the race passing off peacefully.
They can go to their holding camp in Delhi on Friday, sit there and basically draw a line under everything that has happened.
They think the only way to really draw a line under the crisis is for Spain to be taken off the danger list.
Meanwhile Gordon Brown sought to draw a line under the affair by making it clear this week what he thought honours should be about.
Chief executive Michael Clarke said he intended to "draw a line under the performance of 2011" and focus on the refinancing package agreed with banks.
Each time Downing Street has attempted to draw a line under it there has been yet another revelation to re-open it, and even escalate it.
The exchange no doubt hopes that, overseen by this independent board, it can draw a line under all its troubles of the past few months.
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Edinburgh City Council said it attached no blame to any parties but believed it was time to draw a line under attempts to turn the school around.
And crucially, Mr Obama has also picked one or two hugely symbolic issues and used them to draw a line under the era of George W Bush.
Much as Wall Street is keen to draw a line under this latest scandal, you do not need to be unduly perspicacious to find links between this one and other, very recent scandals.
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With sweat pouring off him, he managed to draw a line under the crisis which has been gripping his government recently, and raise delegates' sights to the looming general election.
Ed Miliband is expected to seek to draw a line under the Blair-Brown era and tell Labour delegates that a new generation is in charge, in his first speech as Labour leader.
To do this, Britain's bank managers are attempting to draw a line under the scandals by reviewing strategies, ring-fencing their operations and disposing or unwinding of assets deemed as risky and loss-making.
This was intended to draw a line under the civil strife that ensued, leaving some 150, 000 dead, after the army stepped in when Islamists won the first round of a general election in 1991.
Police and prosecutors are hoping to draw a line under this affair by stressing their commitment to victims, but apologies and sympathetic statements do not alter the fact that courts are necessarily adversarial and unemotional places.
But the Portuguese had hoped that if national leaders signed the treaty in person, the symbolism of the event would draw a line under the crisis provoked in 2005, when French and Dutch voters rejected the original constitution.
But the American authorities in particular managed to draw a line under their financial crisis by injecting new capital into the (sometimes unwilling) banks and by showing that those banks could pass fairly rigorous stress tests in May 2009.
"After all, we are working for a common cause, and it is absolutely clear that to draw a line under the Iraq problem one must take into account both what the coalition is doing there and assessments by (U.N. monitors), " he said.
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