Sentences with phrase «pact among»

An industry coalition is a pact among firms in a market for a common interest.

Some called it the «Mike Hein sales - tax agreement,» citing the county executive's influence and avid promotion of the pact among legislators.

A pact among the two largest unionist parties in Northern Ireland — the UUP and DUP — also virtually guaranteed a knife - edge result, with the contest framed as a battle between nationalism and unionism, or «Green and Orange».

[25] Paterson's self - admissions are in contravention to what the press has dubbed the «Bear Mountain Compact,» [26] an unwritten pact among lawmakers that their transgressions north of the Bear Mountain Bridge will not be reported south of it.

The conversation evolved into a pact among six soccer moms that a karaoke night was in order.

Public responsibility is that limit on my activity I am willing to negotiate with others in society in return for a mutual nonaggression pact among ourselves called the social contract.

The Paris Agreement is an international climate pact among about 190 countries, which aims to keep global warming below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

The LOT serves as a mutual non-aggression pact among a web of companies that include Pandora, Newegg and JP Morgan.

Not exact matches

Among their concerns is that doing so could jeopardize a trans - Atlantic data transfer pact underpinning billions of dollars in trade in digital services, the sources said.

During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump vowed to pull the United States out of the pact, tapping into a well of concern among his fellow Republicans that the United States» energy habits would be policed by the United Nations.

Among those on the dais was Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat with whom he quarreled bitterly in the spring over legislation authorizing him to negotiate trade pacts like one with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.

Among the most controversial US proposals is that a renegotiated agreement contain a «sunset» clause requiring that the pact be reapproved by the three signatories every five years.

I swear there is a secret pact that exists among mothers to not «clue - in» those women who have not yet have children.

PACTS executive director David Davies said: «It is often said that Britain's roads are among the safest in the world.

Nigel Farage's suggestion of a Tory - Ukip pact is gaining traction among Conservative members, despite his demand the tie - up comes at the cost of their leader David Cameron.

Labour denied reports of a heated telephone conversation between Brown and Clegg, and support among Brown's Cabinet colleagues remained strong, but one backbencher, John Mann, urged Brown to step aside as Labour leader before the party conference in September, arguing that Brown's continued leadership «rules out the credibility of a Lib / Lab pact».

Tonko became a prominent opponent of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, citing American trade deficits and the use of child labor by at least four countries who had already signed the pact as among his reasons for opposing the deal.

Predictable soul searching among parties: Conservatives talking about pacts with UKIP (no go) and Labour about Miliband (won't change now)

But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

The addition of «Lady Bird» to Prime Video comes under Amazon's multiyear pact with A24, which also covers 2017 Oscar - winning best picture «Moonlight,» among other films.

It may not be directly attributed to the PACT project, but equally important has been the improved academic performance among the students involved.

Reacting to the rising criticisms directed toward PACT, voters may have grown disenchanted with the state's accountability system and removed test - score performance from among the criteria on which they evaluated school board candidates.

Among the trees, she also meets Kaisa, the king's huntress, with whom she feels an overwhelming, real - world pull, and it's Kaisa, not the prince, who inspires Ash to make a perilous, soul - threatening pact with Sidhean and attend the court balls in enchanted disguise.

The pact's approval followed fierce debates among Russian officials.

The pop star is teaming up with Nobel Peace Prize - winner Al Gore and producer Kevin Wall to pull off a «Live Earth» concert on seven continents to build support for a U.N. climate pact in Paris among more than 190 nations in December.

Nearly two dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library groups urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to quit filling his administration with insiders plucked from the Recording Industry Association of America... Groups such as Public Knowledge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association, the Wikimedia Foundation and, among...

As a PACT therapist (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) my job, among others, is to help you two better understand each other.