So if she had a chance to make an agreement, she was actually adding political capital, not taking it away.
He also explained that, regarding the EU budget talks, Italy was willing to do her share to make an agreement possible, "notwithstanding some sacrifices attached", and thus share the cost of the enlargement...
As she arrived for Thursday's meeting in Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it would take time to make an agreement with the EU that did not shut out some NATO allies.
The proposals would also require councils to work with the owners and operators of private car parks - such as supermarkets and out of town shopping centres - to negotiate an agreement to make disabled parking places in these car parks enforceable.
The person said Cabrera asked the players' association to convey his desire to the commissioner's office and that an agreement to make him ineligible was reached Friday.
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If they were to choose to make passage of the stimulus conditional on an agreement to address the long-term imbalances they could force Mr Obama to give some form of undertaking.
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The President has shown himself willing to make tough choices to reduce spending and to get an agreement, because he thinks the American people expect us to do that and to be reasonable.
Greece is heading toward new elections next month, with polls suggesting a narrow victory for a radical leftist party that wants to tear up an international loan agreement which forced the government to make deep budget cuts.
Villa secretary Steve Stride said the club was obliged to make the switch by an FA Premiership agreement with Sky TV over televised games.
Restricting the definition...could make an agreement easier to verify, but ineffective in achieving its purpose of protecting satellites....Furthermore, problems of weapon definition are compounded because some non-weapon space systems, including civil and commercial systems, could have characteristics which would make it difficult to frame a definition to distinguish them.
If an agreement is going to succeed we have to make progress in all dimensions of the agreement.
Thus perhaps best for Apple to reach an agreement with Proview and make some form of cash settlement.
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After a two-hour meeting with panel co-chairman James Baker, the two men "walked out... with an agreement on how to make our recommendation, " Perry says.
The President continues to hold out hope that Republicans will do that, and is certainly willing to make tough choices, as he has demonstrated in the past, to reach an agreement that does achieve the kind of balanced deficit and debt reduction that this country needs.
In addition, many green-minded schools, like Yale and Stanford, aren't part of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, an agreement by university presidents to make their school carbon neutral.
Remembering similar bipartisan talks on major issues, such as the Gang of Six that spent months working on a health care overhaul in 2009 without every reaching an agreement, they want to make sure Congress gets legislation to consider.
Item: In May Moskowitz signed an agreement with Bristol-Myers to make translucent ceramic parts for orthodontic braces.
Now the two sides are close to an agreement under which the Americans will make the waivers permanent and promise to eschew similar extra-territorial laws in future.
In 2009, facing a likely loss in an anti-discrimination lawsuit, the county just north of New York City negotiated an agreement with the federal government designed to make Westchester's government a force for fair housing.
But nobody's going to agree on a specific trade accord just as it sits, so the President is going to continue to work with folks to make sure that we get to a good agreement that works for American workers and works for getting trade going in an aggressive way.
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And now the city has now signed an agreement with NASA to develop new firefighting equipment to make it safer to fight fires in space.
The U.S. has been irritated too by the EU's agreement that Persson should make an official visit to North and South Korea seeking to aid the reconciliation process on the peninsula.
While traditionally one would trade bonds to make such bets, by entering into either side of an interest rate swap agreement, you would gain immediate exposure to interest rate movements with virtually no initial cash outlay.
But yes, technically the next administration, since it is an executive agreement, could change it or make some amendment to it at some point.
Back in the States, to stave off a bankruptcy of Venture, Winget struck an agreement with the bank syndicate to end his sweetheart deals: Venture would make no more payments to his outside companies.
One reason perhaps is that although the Russians seem to be keen on such a regime, the US has not elicited enough concessions in principle on law enforcement to make this worthwhile from their perspective (notwithstanding the probable lack of practical effect of such an agreement also).
This week's accord could result in little more than a return to a 1994 pact between America and North Korea, by which North Korea froze its operations at Yongbyon in return for fuel oil shipments and an agreement eventually to provide replacement nuclear reactors that could less easily be used to make weapons material.
The prospect of an "imminent" conventional arms control agreement will also make it much more difficult to maintain the readiness and effectiveness of Western non-nuclear defenses.
He'll make a short visit to Pakistan and spend a couple of days in India where he may sign an agreement dealing with the country's nuclear program.
The partnership marks the first time Baidu has signed such an agreement with a global operator, and supports Orange and Baidu's aim to make the mobile web available for all in emerging markets.
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