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The nuclear pact with the United States was at the heart of the two-day debate that preceded the vote.

Her remarks appeared to close the door on any further talks on the pact, the subject of nearly a year of grueling negotiations.

At the heart of it, a pregnancy pact.

Yet given the word supplication, he said, "making a serious request for help, " and pact drew "friendly agreement. "

On the face of it, the pact is about bolstering the economic bit of Europe's economic and monetary union (see Charlemagne).

"The pact is likely to attract foreign investors to Taiwan as they expect to benefit from the integration with China, " he said.

As for Mr Abe, the pact is of a piece with a more robust foreign policy for Japan that was begun by his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi.

The merged firm will keep 35% of the environment business and a shareholders' pact will give it a control over fully 47% of the company.

If the PPP leads the next government, a peace pact with the generals is possible but the military men are bound to be nervous.

The pact was expected to be signed by the two countries during Secretary Rice's visit to the Indian capital, but that did not happen.

Among former Warsaw Pact countries, the majority of Russians and Ukrainians said the break up of the Soviet Union was a bad thing.

At least 23 EU countries will now endeavour to hammer out a new separate stability pact with teeth over the next three months.

But I wished I could find some way. . . I might feel better if I weren't holding fast, all alone, to a broken pact.

Germany had to ask, humiliatingly, for lenient implementation of the Stability Pact it had insisted upon, and the European Union agreed.

Goldman shares surged late in the day on expectation of a pact, and continued to rally in after-hours trading.

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told Reuters yesterday that Iran did not want to leave the pact.

East Germany was the Warsaw Pact's most advanced member, yet integrating it into the west has been a generational project.

This pact was thought at the time to be an interim compromise, necessary until Lebanon formed its own sense of a national identity.

She had made a suicide pact with a man who changed his mind at the last minute and left the car, the police said.

Turkish generals started to mutter that they might have done better in Brussels if they had joined the Warsaw Pact, not NATO.

The Shanxi pact was set to have Marbury play for two years, with an option for a third and a possible role as a coach.

Thankfully , eventually, she did let it go and made a pact with Lisa to reunite in heaven.

This week's event in San Francisco was an effort to update the defense pact, with China again looming over the meeting.

Such a pact would draw China into any conflict involving their ally and likely anger the U. S. and India, Pakistan's regional rival.

Australia's action leaves the United States as the only major developed nation that has refused to ratify the global pact.

The only certainty is the signing of the pact with Colombia and Peru, which then must be approved by the European Parliament.

The end of the stability pact will be a victory rather than a defeat if it leads to new ways of monitoring and controlling fiscal policy.

With almost no hope of a big new pact, many expect progress on the formation of a global Green Climate Fund to be one of its few successes.

Plans for a Franco-German competitiveness pact will not do enough to deal with the present crisis, or prevent another.

These would be voluntary cuts and therefore unlikely to be part of a binding climate-change pact.

Seizing the moment, George Bush decided to send the Colombian free-trade pact to Congress for approval.

The new "pact" on immigration and asylum, due to be adopted by an EU summit in mid-October, is his idea.

This concession did not occur without bitter protest from the Duke of Tamar, who believed all those worlds belonged to the Tamar Pact.

Obama said the pact can serve as a 'seed' for a broader regional agreement, hoping that 'a lot' of other countries will join in.

A tacit pact between the Alawite and Sunni elites is cemented by the skilful doling-out of the fruits of economic liberalisation.

The pact appeared to represent President Obama's first victory in his ambitious agenda to move toward a nuclear-free world.

In the special sense of preparation for war, the major beneficiary of the Munich Pact was probably the United States.

Mr Sarkozy has said his party will fire any candidate who tries to make a local electoral pact with the Front.

An actor, perhaps, will have more difficulty to let himself go with such a pact, which is almost spiritual in nature.

There are no reports of any girls or their relatives coming forward to confirm such a pact.

The Locarno Pact was signed in London, guaranteeing peace and frontiers in Europe.

Part of the appeal of Android has been that Google offers it free, but Wednesday's pact attaches a cost to Android, at least for Samsung.

Lawyers said the clause appears to defang the exclusivity pact between Wachovia and Citigroup.

They say it's a powerful wizard who has made a pact with the demons and gave them their live, but no one has ever lived to tell the tail.

A trade pact between three mercantile countries - seems sort of meaning less.

Iraq's parliament has approved a new security pact with the US that calls for all American combat troops to leave in three years.

U. S. officials have said it is possible to conclude the pact next year, though they are reluctant to set a target date.

Analyst Tilford says whether Britain and others will be weaker for opting out of the fiscal pact depends on what happens to the eurozone.

The stability and growth pact is now too full of holes to be a binding constraint on fiscal policy.

And for Germany, at least, the Pact for the Euro is the route to lasting salvation.

One part of that pact has already been exposed as flawed, since it turns out that, given a free rein, banks sometimes blow themselves up.

A bigger fund (and the social pact) should soften worries about Spanish sovereign debt, at least for the time being.

The pact will replace a U. N. mandate for the U. S. presence in Iraq that expires at the end of this year.

IMPROVING relations between China and Taiwan will get another boost with the signing of a groundbreaking free-trade pact by the end of June.

Later, she made a sinister pact with the Dark Elves (Dungeon faction).

Although this version was adapted to take account of the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet collapse, it remains broadly in force.

Mario Draghi, the ECB's new president, has hinted that were a fiscal pact to be agreed, the ECB might buy bonds on a larger scale.

There is some hope that a peace pact will be signed between the two countries. She pries too closely into the private life of her friends.

Making a psychic prediction is seen as invoking diabolical forces, perhaps even entering into a pact with Satan.

But it's doubtful whether the Pact can really be tightened and enforced in a way that can prevent the next crisis.

The experience with Europe's stability and growth pact, which failed to do just that for public sector deficits, should serve as a warning.

We relied in the Middle East on the Baghdad Pact, and yet when the Iraqi government was changed, the Baghdad Pact broke down.

The pact invokes the concept of circular migration to argue that immigration can benefit both sending and receiving countries.

The leaders decided they would move to form a pact among at least 23 of the members to tighten rules on national fiscal policy.

alchemical pact: A mystical bond between members of a throng, allowing them to mitigate some of the drawbacks of Promethean existence.

South Korea, under a pact with the United States, is restricted to possessing military missiles with a maximum range of 300 km.

Soon after the signature of that bilateral pact, China entered WTO that year, and Kazakhstan also seeped for the entry of WTO.

The company will work with PACT, a non-governmental group that supports economic and health initiatives in developing nations.

Forget about a stability pact and focus instead on the long-term sustainability of public finances, including pensions.

Proponents of the North American pact (NAFTA)argue that nothing in the agreement will contravene the GATT accord, if it is ever reached.

that agrees with early abolitionists that the Great Compromise between North and South was a pact with the Devil.

Together they developed a voluntary pact known as the Vienna Initiative, to keep money flowing in the European Union's eastern states.

Analysts say that, for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the nuclear pact is important enough to risk his government.

The pact is particularly significant because Indonesia is one of the most biologically diverse countries on Earth.

Hello. -I swear, that child has a pact with Satan to destroy me. I'm just not cut out for this job. I have no patience for children.

After many long discussions at night in their crowded bed, the two boys finally worked out a pact. They would toss a coin.

And the fate of the free trade pact the administration negotiated with the Colombian government will soon be decided in the U. S. Congress.

As fellow historian Geoff Roberts puts it, the pact was an "instrument of defence, not aggression" .

At a meeting in Hawaii with representatives of several Pacific nations, he proposed an expansion of a trade pact that excludes China.

That pact restricted Wachovia from entering into merger discussions with any other bank.

But first I made a pact with myself: to remember that I did deserve to be here and my experiences would add to the overall class experience.

A day after the debt deal, Senate leaders reached a sort of pact on moving the free-trade agreements forward.

For Chrysler, the bankruptcy filing and Fiat pact represent a chance to end years of losses and declining market share.

Germany itself was one of the first to breach the stability pact's ceilings in 2002-03.

The Lakers star will be featured on an NBA video game released in the fall, but terms of the sponsorship pact aren't disclosed.

The agreement is the largest such pact for the United States since the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994.

He played a key role in drawing up the Stability and Growth Pact in the 1990s while based at the German finance ministry.

One of the real pluses of this product is that it is of very high quality and of pact size.

If the pact had been rigorously enforced, Greece would never have been allowed into the euro.

That at least may push along talks aimed at forging a new global-warming treaty to replace the weak Kyoto pact.

The weapon system was the standard sniper rifle issued to the Red Army and most Warsaw Pact nations during the cold war.

Make a pact with yourself that you will wait until you have been together at least six months before you start using the "Love" words.

The pact was posted online and was soon joined by several hundred female college students across the country.

Japan is the world's third biggest economy, and its participation would be a major boost to the pact.

Japan has emerged as a go-between with China for Western countries on the touchy issue of a new global climate - change pact.

Some analysts view the Sino-Norwegian talks as a dress-rehearsal for a potential future pact between China and the European Union.

But immigrant rights groups like the CIMADE are critical of the immigration pact.

In contrast, Mr Ma insists that the proposed pact would make it easier for Taiwan to sign free-trade accords with third parties.

Recently, the proposal won praise from 17 major-economy countries meeting in Paris as a possible mechanism to help finance a UN pact.

The Kyoto global warming pact, which the U. S. never ratified, went into effect.

The whole high school was shocked at the news of the two classmates who killed themselves in a suicide pact.

As Dr. Singh and Mr. Karzai made it clear, the pact would not be directed against any state or a group of states.

The expansion could give China incentives to move toward more open markets and eventually join the pact, but makes clear the U.

As the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson pointed out, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

The Iraqi cabinet approved a new security pact with the United States, governing the deployment of American troops in the country.

France is heading towards a permanently higher deficit, and Europe's stability and growth pact is now effectively suspended.

Early this month, five students in Shaanxi province made a death pact to drink a poisonous herbicide together in a local temple one morning.

China and New Zealand signed a sweeping free trade agreement Monday, the rising economic giant's first such pact with a developed country.

U. N. officials will work to turn the pact "into a legally binding treaty, " Mr. Ban said. "We will do our best to do it in 2010. "

Best of all, the Republican party has traded in Newt Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America for a suicide pact with itself.

Best of all, the Republican party has traded in Newt Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America for a suicide pact with itself.

Yahoo in July agreed to a pact with Microsoft that effectively sees the Sunnyvale, Calif. , Internet company outsource search to Microsoft.

Delegates in Durban must ensure that, even if they cannot achieve a global pact this week, they do not undo the good work already done.

He who has not made a pact with the Devil should not live, because the Devil symbolizes life better than God.

The sketch was based on Goethe's "Faust" where the hero, famously frustrated by the limits to his learning, makes a pact with the devil.

It has features of com-pact structure, convenient installation, low noise, power saving and definite classification.

Gorbachev had already told the Warsaw Pact leaders in October 1985 that each ruling party must now take responsibility for its own affairs.

Is such a pact to rebalance the world economy possible at all?

In 1961 it was chosen as the main training aircraft for the participating countries of the Warsaw Pact.

Insiders say Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron are bound by a pact of loyalty and friendship that no sensible minister would try to prise apart.

Costa Rican voters narrowly approved the pact in a referendum in October 2007. Hurricane Paloma destroyed thousands of homes in Cuba.

The stability and growth pact was designed to limit budget deficits, but nobody believed its sanctions would be enforced.

No easy task, to be sure, judging by how euro-area countries flouted the fiscal targets in their Stability and Growth Pact.

North Korea balked at allowing intrusive international inspections of its nuclear sites, a key component in the disarmament pact.

According to Associated Press, Superintendent Christopher Farmer could not confirm such a pact ever existed.

In January Bank of China, the country's most international outfit, entered into a pact with Ecobank, which operates in 31 African countries.

Although there exists a nonaggression pact between the Horde and the Alliance, skirmishes between the two factions are not uncommon.

A showdown looms with other European Union members, especially Germany, over the stability-pact rules for reining in budget deficits.

The American government concluded a treaty with "gray" aliens in 1954. This mutual cooperation pact is called the Grenada Treaty.

Telling the nation that the pact had been made long ago was a big mistake, says a former high-ranking Kremlin official.

Russia's lower house of parliament has given a preliminary approval to a nuclear arms pact with United States.

There will be no wriggling out of this bondage version of the stability and growth pact.

Whether this leads to lasting peace is another matter. This is at least their fourth pact since 2004.

Improved Curse of Weakness, Dark Pact and Mana Feed have had their tooltips clarified.

The pact, signed in Beijing by the two countries' Foreign Ministers, finally settles the demarcation of the border.

Without the Russian pact, German generals would certainly have been loath to go into military action.

So, we had made a 'Blood Pact' for the reason of balancing the power between the Mystical forces and the Normal Territory.

The single currency's architects put their faith in the "no bail-out" clause coupled with a "stability and growth pact" .

As soon as the verdict was announced, a parliamentary supporter flatly announced that Ukraine's trade pact with Europe is now dead.

Thelin has completed his pact with Terris Thule , but has been refused. The only way to escape his torment now is to destroy Terris Thule .

Renewal, for five-year increments, is contingent upon proof of trademark utilization in an Andean Pact nation.

India and the United States have agreed in a defense pact that boosts American arms sales to India.

But any pact without China will lack critical mass, and could be divisive if seen as an "anyone-but-China" club.

They made a pact not to tell anybody about their plan.

So far, a long-term non-aggression pact has not been signed.

Mr Strauss-Kahn and Ms Aubry had an informal pact not to run against each other.

N. climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming, in a damaging standoff with Japan, Russia and Canada.

Mr Ramesh is visiting China this month to strike a pact with Beijing ahead of the Copenhagen talks on climate change in December.

After NATO responds with Nuclear weapons, the PACT will use Nuclear weapons as well.

Further opening up of market access is expected with the signing of a broad trade pact later this year.

Mr. De Gucht, the European Union's trade commissioner, said completing a trade pact could take two years.

Mr Ma hopes the pact will demonstrate the benefits of his pragmatism in dealings with China.

A free-trade pact with the mainland is the cornerstone of his cross-strait policies.

A more overtly nuclear-armed North Korea would also bolster Japan's already increasingly close security pact with America.

The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the final act in the restoration of the old Russian Tsarist Empire.

I therefore agree never to seek to overturn this pact with an appeal to the God of the Universe.

The Hungarian Revolution against Russian domination had been crushed by the invasion of Russian and other Warsaw Pact forces on 14 November.

The United States and Iraq agreed to a new security pact last month, allowing U. S. troops to remain in the country until 2011 .

Predictably enough the stability pact was swiftly bust by France and Germany, after which it was fitted with extra loopholes.

Premier Gordon Campbell from British Columbia and New Jersey governor Jon Corzine were in Portugal to sign the pact.

"No doubt that was why Prince Doran chose to keep the pact a secret, " suggested Daenerys.

He also said it was crucial for Japan to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a wide-ranging trade pact, by next year.

We believe that the trade pact would be good for America's economy and workers.

The administration is hoping to persuade treaty members to impose stiffer punishments on nations that are accused of violating the pact.

Reports last week of a pact between Enel and Franç ois Pinault, a retail and luxury-goods tycoon, added to the uncertainty.

The restraint imposed on the euro area by the stability and growth pact was supposed to limit euro-denominated sovereign borrowings.

The pact commits Russia and the United States to cuts in the number of deployed warheads.

Germany has insisted the pact must be ratified and implemented by all 25 signatory governments, regardless of who wins the French election.

The politics are simply too complex and the problem itself too wicked to be solved in a single pact.

Signing of the cross-Strait Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement, a free trade pact, has suffered repeated delays.

Could this pact grow into a third force in Italian politics?

They construed the social contract as a pact of complete subjection to an absolute sovereign .

Will he sign up to a national pact?

Some economists and officials have argued that these bilateral agreements undermine efforts toward a globally binding free trade pact.

On France's watch, the 27 EU members signed up to an "immigration pact" .

German officials say there is now bitter regret in Berlin that their country helped wreck the original stability and growth pact.

So we didn't have the peace pact because of him.

Yet even a limited and informal international pact is a useful foundation for national actions by the biggest emitters.

But these remain voluntary commitments to reform, and the pact does not contain any binding targets or sanctions.

What the "I' perspective means is you making a pact to trust yourself to be interesting enough. "

Stalin was not directly responsible for the Holocaust, but his pact with the Nazis paved the way for Hitler's killing of Jews in the east.

Harsh penalties in international economic agreements are rarely effective: remember Europe's Stability and Growth Pact?

The pact is the primary barrier to the unchecked spread of nuclear arms across the globe.

Japan invaded Taiwan, afterwards The Beijing Pact was signed, which acknowledged that Japan sent out army for " protecting citizens"

In 1941, she traveled to the Soviet Union just as Germany broke its pact of non-aggression.

A few months after that, Warsaw Pact countries officially ended the alliance.

The internet is as much a trade pact as an invention.

The Bush administration in its dying days must still win congressional approval for the pact.

Ross: Come on, this was a pact! This was your pact!

Negotiators hope to agree on the basics of that pact when they meet in Copenhagen from December 7.

pact They made a pact not to tell anyone.

The Stability and Growth Pact, which restricts public spending, was relaxed to permit governments to recapitalize their banks.

So they made a pact to avoid critical words for a whole week.

Next we need a new pact for economic convergence, jobs and growth, to complement the current uncomfortable but essential austerity measures.

Pyongyang says it's calling off a non-aggression pact with its neighbor.

The terms of the pact are confidential, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company said.

At last , Lucifer became Sadan and made a pact with Messiah to fight again after 1000 years .

All good stuff. But the louder the denials from both sides, the more evident is the main catalyst for the security pact: the rise of China.

The Red Army adopted the AK-47 as its standard infantry weapon in 1949, and it was standard issue for the major Warsaw Pact armies as well.

If it delays or rejects this, the pact becomes void, they say.

It currently seems all the more important that member countries remain committed to the Stability and Growth Pact.

The announcement of the pact shrieked at Byron and Natalie from the news placards in the Rome airport.

President Dmitry Medvedev called earlier this year for an all-European security pact.

They have made a pact with each other not to speak about their differences in public.

Gym-pact offers what Zhang calls "motivational fees" where customers agree to pay more if they miss their scheduled workouts.

"The constitutional pact has reached its limits, " blasted Artur Mas, of Convergence and Union, a nationalist coalition.

The relationship between the Vatican and Rome's German occupiers was, Mr. Katz says, a Faustian pact.

According to AFP Greg Verga, a member of the school's board said that the idea of a pact has been blown out of proportion.

CHARLIE CRIST, Florida's governor, first tried to make a gambling pact with the Seminole tribe in late 2007.

In the late Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang made a non-aggression pact by taking Honggou (in today's Henan Province) as the boundary.

Early on, countries made a pact aimed at preventing a free-spending state from undermining the common currency.

Next year's 50th anniversary of the pact would provide an occasion for that.

But the pact included an unusual liability clause that makes nuclear power plant suppliers, not just operators, liable if accidents occur.

Speaking earlier at the US Chamber of Commerce in Seoul, Clinton said that the pact would strengthen the US-South Korea alliance.

Earlier this year, Ms Merkel proposed a "competitiveness pact" for eurozone countries committing them to common budget and tax policies.

In addition, Germany, which should have known better, broke the stability and growth pact, and its banks recklessly bought risky bonds.

Negotiators are putting "maximum effort" toward resolving objections to the pact before Obama arrives in Seoul.

Net neutrality campaigners say Google's response is contradictory, hence the negative response to the Verizon pact.

The current project is doomed, as is any serious toughening of the Stability Pact, for the same reason.

Euro zone leaders' deal on a competitiveness pact is expected to be adopted formally at a full 27-nation European Union summit March 24-25.

But it should also invest diplomatic effort in helping Beijing align itself with the pact's goals and standards.

After signing ECFA pact, Taiwan avoided a warlike hostile relation with China but became trading cooperative partners.

Casting the spell "Dark Pact" immediately after combat will no longer put you back into combat mode.

KEVIN RUDD made a pact with the voters of Australia last night to step forward with them and forge a new future for the nation.

And rules imposed from outside, as with the euro zone's Stability and Growth Pact, are less likely to succeed.

Today's laws often assume that privacy is guaranteed by a pact between consumer and company, or citizen and state.

Now redubbed the "pact for the euro" , it stipulates that all euro-zone countries put into law a pledge to get a grip on public debt.

Thedominant foreign issue was a free-trade pact with the US, a treatybitterly opposed by the Liberal and New Democratic parties.

However, an energy pact could be undermined by rivalry between Moscow and Beijing over oil and gas resources.

Hitler's attack on Russia, shortly after his pact with Stalin, was a stunning demarche.

Agreement on the cooperation pact follows a period of tense relations over a Russian missile deal with Iran.

Republicans are always blamed for the failure of the peace pact.

The Russians had balked at continuing some provisions from the first START pact, saying they were too intrusive.

Earlier this week, India signed an atomic energy pact with France during a visit by the Indian prime minister to Paris.

Chaotic Armor (Basic & Upgrade): The Juggernauts have made a pact with Ur-Khrag, the Overlord of Destruction.

Countries meeting in Copenhagen will try to forge a pact on carbon emission reduction targets.

A spell to create a magical pact between two people. The vow is so binding that if one person should break it, death will incur.

Unlike previous guest-worker schemes, the pact suggests, improved technology will mean that more people really will go home.

We were so upset that we made a pact to go in and let our teacher know that we felt totally ripped off.

Currency geeks, mark your calendars: The 25th anniversary for that historic pact is next Wednesday, Sept.

The EU's first free-trade pact in Asia is expected to send South Korean exports of cars and consumer electronics to Europe soaring.

France insisted that the "stability pact" proposed in the treaty be renamed "stability and growth pact" .

He could be chancellor if the Lib Dems make a pact with another party.

Giacomo has decided he must repudiate his daughter who, he believes, has entered a pact with the Devil.

Mr. Anand Sharma also said that the Indian Government will soon sign a broad trade and investment pact with the European Union.

That set off a month of back-and-forth discussions that underscored the difficulty in reaching a pact.

In many respects, the Microsoft-Nokia partnership is similar to the search pact the software giant has with Yahoo.

Naturally Illidan made no mention of his pact with Kil'jaeden, for Malfurion would not have understood.

If some member countries reject this proposal, euro-zone nations will forge ahead by sealing a pact outside EU treaties, they said.

Affirming the silent right system meets international trend , is the need of carrying out international pact.