And as we've heard from Brian, it's unlikely that the House and Senate will agree on a new immigration bill any time soon.
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Moscow and Washington, not for the first time, agree on a reduction of strategic offensive arms, but as you have mentioned, Russia and the United States are not the only countries having nuclear weapons.
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But I believe we still have time to agree on a balanced solution, and I believe that the good experience Barack and myself have gained while working on the START Treaty will help us and be very useful when finding solution to this very difficult problem.
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Buyers and investors alike agree that a one-time knock on earnings beats a drag that lasts for years.
Although Mr Kabila almost certainly died within minutes or hours of his shooting, his body was flown to Harare, ostensibly for treatment but probably merely to give the government time to reorganise and agree on a successor.
It is time for the world to agree on a settlement and impose it on the feuding parties.
But to stop money from overseas companies flowing into the American political process would probably take new legislation, at a time when lawmakers have been unable to agree on any sort of tightening of the rules to limit the all-powerful role of big money in politics.
The sources said the move effectively gave all sides more time to consider the various plans - in particular, giving newspapers more time to see if they could all agree on a position, and the chance to try to persuade Labour and the Liberal Democrats to support their plan.
This time round, the countries should be able to agree on a common position for public consumption, avoiding another unseemly row.
Both parties would be better off if they could agree to use a less time-consuming and stressful process for deciding on a sale price.
The potential for upside if lawmakers can agree on a credible plan to cut the U.S. debt burden over time is huge, Dimon said.
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The spending choice was left to Mr Gilmore, because the legislature, for the first time in Virginia's history, failed to agree on a budget this year.
The animals that live in Africa's big game parks have been targeted by poachers for a long time, but wildlife experts don't agree on how to keep those animals alive.
And I agree that there are some rules and regulations that put an unnecessary burden on businesses at a time when they can least afford it.
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But parliament will probably not agree on an alternative, leaving the way clear for Mr Kwasniewski to nominate Mr Belka a second time, and with a better chance of winning a second, less stringent, confidence vote.
To guard against that risk, the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has just held a summit in Montreal, at which it divided the long list of ATM modernisation projects into manageable chunks, on which the world's aviation authorities will try to agree standards, one at a time.
And I think in many ways it's a testament to the hard work of a lot of people in the administration in bringing a very disparate group of stakeholders together for the very first time to agree on one standard for emissions and for fuel economy, something that hasn't been done before.
Councils must agree tax reduction schemes by a deadline of 31 January to make sure people get the benefit on time.
And, again, go back to my health care analogy -- we had an issue that had been something that scientists had talked about for quite some time, is through half of the process in getting the House to agree on a bill.
The government has been racked by walkouts during the current U.S.-led campaign to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces -- a push aimed at buying time for al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders to agree on plans to divide the country's oil wealth, hold provincial elections and allow former Baath Party members back into public life.
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After he told the story in our M and M meeting, the hospital implemented a "time out" protocol in the operating room for everyone to stop and agree on what operation would be performed, on what side of the body and whether the correct patient was indeed lying on the operating table, to make sure that kind of mistake would never happen again.
Experts differ on the advantages of outside help but agree that the real payoff may simply be saving time in what can be a weeks-long process.
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