Sentences with phrase «pact if»

Then, there's this: The four - year pact Knox recently signed with the Sea - hawks reportedly has a clause allowing him to break the pact if he got a promotion — say, general manager / coach — with another team.

Maybe the Habs are okay taking a bit of a hit later in the pact if it gives them a chance at a Stanley Cup with Price over the next few years.

Canada has warned the U.S. needs to show more flexibility in «core» issues with the trade pact if it wants a deal this spring.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive on Monday, after dropping earlier after Iran's oil minister said OPEC would not extend its production cap pact if high crude oil prices continued.

Not exact matches

Iran's oil minister Bijan Zanganehsaid that if crude oil prices continued to rise, there would be no need to extend a pact between the Organization of...

Any refusal by Newfoundland and Labrador to lift minimum processing rules could trigger complaints under the pact which, if upheld, may result in penalties against Canada.

«I wouldn't be at all surprised if she were to get to the White House, tweak the pact, and reintroduce it.»

If the U.K., Germany and France, alongside Congress, don't fix these issues by May 12, he said, America will withdraw the pact and sanctions will be reinstated — although this would not be done for a number of years.

It also spelled out EU resistance to Britain scrapping swathes of tax, environmental and labour laws if it wants to have an eventual free trade pact.

MEXICO CITY, March 5 - Canada and Mexico on Monday pushed back against President Donald Trump's suggestion that steel and aluminum tariffs could be waived if they signed a new and «fair» NAFTA deal, setting the stage for a tense end to the latest talks to update the trade pact.

If we are to pull out of the suicide - pact fantasy economy of perpetual, exponential growth on a finite planet, it's time to grow up and move on.

Our purpose has been to put forward recommendations for a Canada - ASEAN pact and to detail the economic benefits that would flow from such an agreement if it is reached.

Even if the 1988 pact were voided, a 1965 pact covering automobiles might come back into effect.

A recent study by Moody's Analytics suggests that none of the economies of the NAFTA signatories would be thrown into recession if the pact were to collapse.

With respect to the United States, half of Canadians (51 %) hold the opinion that the gains from securing a trade pact with Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Australia and the other TPP nations, outweigh the retaliatory risks that may come from the U.S., if they are upset by new agreement:

The company would face millions of dollars in fines if it were found to have violated that pact.

She told the New York Times that they had made a pact to help the other die if suffering seriously with a terminal illness.

«To write on literature or art was considered an honorable occupation,» he wrote in 1997, «whereas any time notions taken from the language of religion appeared, the one who brought them up was immediately treated as lacking in tact, as if a silent pact had been broken.

NOT, you MUST kill unbelievers in Mecca, but you can, you are allowed to, BUT only after a grace period is over and only if there's no other pact in place and only if they try to stop you getting to the Kaaba, and only if they attack you first.

If we fail to acknowledge the infamy of the Hitler - Stalin pact, which consigned these countries to the meat - grinder, and fail to note that most of the casualties and destruction of World War II involved these countries» peoples and their territories, then our picture of the Soviet Union is incomplete — and so is our understanding of what happened in 1989 — 91.

If It were true that all the evil were on one side, then any appeal to fairness might be seen as making a pact with the devil.

But if you leave the faith, if you stop putting your hope in a future which is promised by God but which is a mere illusion, if you will make a pact with me and work for me — the prince of the world — then you will find happiness.

I have lost numerous dear ones, some even with a pact to let me know what's up after they were gone, if anything - nothing yet from any of them.

(If it makes my willpower look any less weak, note this: that Brandon and I also made a pact to not turn on the heat before October 1, and by god, we made it.

Luckily for the Dolphins, it's only a one - year pact, so if Grimes plays poorly in 2013, they won't be committed for the future.

«We talked before Jordan's freshman season and made a pact that I would get out of the way if we could not differentiate between Dad and Coach,» Jerold Ligons said.

If everyone was in on that pact, Sunday would have been a disappointment, the stadium would have roared the team on in a way that encourages them and makes things a bit less tense for the players; afterwards we would all have absorbed the blow of that poor performance and defeat and consoled ourselves with the knowledge the season is long.

Make a pact with your child's teacher: «If you don't believe everything my child says about me, I won't believe everything he says about you.»

Many singletons make marriage pacts with their good friend — a loose «If we don't find «The One» by the time we're 40, let's just get married» deal.

We also made a pact that if either of us was just too tired, we'd stop at the nearest hotel to rest, without question.

If the Tories tried to hold on and just about managed to scrape together enough Lib Dem support to see them over the line - either via another coalition, or a formal pact, or simply by a confidence - and - supply arrangement - then they would succeed.

President Akufo - Addo's address which was intended to bring closure on the heated public sentiment against the pact seem to have done little if not fuel the controversy as more civil society organisations speak up against the deal.

I personally don't mind whether there's a Lab - LibDem coalition if there's a hung parliament, or a semi-formal pact that allows Labour to continue in office with conditional LibDem support.

But if the opposition parties are stupid enough to walk into what May hopes is her trap, make sure it snaps shut on her by an electoral pact to oust the Tories.

If the Co-operative Party were to disaffiliate from Labour and run on its own, I'd consider joining it immediately, and would definitely argue for an electoral pact until we reform the electoral system.

Well one things for sure, a Lib / Lab pact will be the only way to defeat the Tories if Labour starts sliding down the drain again, which it looks like it is...

If Labour ends up the largest party in a hung parliament there's plenty of material for a Lib / Lab pact.

At least, they weren't uncommon until the GOP made a pact to try and stop anything Obama supported, even if it was their own measures, in 2009.

There was something very striking about the pact, which implies the new agreement could remain in place even if the prime minister does not.

A Conservative backbencher suggesting a pact with UKIP said Nigel Farage has got «a lot of talent» when asked if the smaller party leader could serve as a minister in a Tory government.

Fred Dicker says Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is ready to enter into a «Faustian pact» with the governor, agreeing to a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage hike if Cuomo agrees not to help the Senate Democrats in this year's elections.

Alastair Campbell was proud of this Faustian pact at the time, and when I rang up the then editor of The Sun, Stuart Higgins, known as the «human sponge» to ask if it were true that his paper would be supporting Labour he said «No!»

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

Polling by Populus (for Lord Ashcroft) has, however, suggested that LibDem MPs could face wipeout in Tory / LD marginals if they don't have a non-aggression pact with the Conservatives in these seats.

If the voters do decide to embrace the alternative vote, the pact would require each of the coalition partners to urge their supporters to give their second preference vote to the candidate from the other coalition party.»

«The Coalition should prepare for extreme unpopularity and govern as if it only has one term Main Why an electoral pact between the Coalition partners isn't as simple as it may seem to be»

If the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deaIf the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deaif Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deal.

Kwame Nkrumah tells us in Africa Must Unite (1963) that «if we do not unite and combine our military resources for common defence, our individual [African] States, out of a sense of insecurity, may be drawn into making defence pacts with foreign powers which may endanger the security of us all».

If voters strongly associate a small party with one of the major parties — and an electoral pact or formal call for tactical voting would be a clear signal — they will believe a vote for the small party is effectively a vote for a government led by its proximate major party.

The problem is that if a small group of countries do this it imperrils the entire defence pact.