• In a victory over some of her colleagues, Connie Hedegaard, the climate commissioner, has got the commission to agree to propose tightening up on emissions allowances in 2013-20.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's climate policy

  • And they all end up appearing to agree on a way forward - to their and my surprise.

    BBC: How free should our free press be?

  • And we believe that there are a lot of serious lawmakers up on Capitol Hill who agree that we need to do this.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Utilities would give their customers credits on their bills if they agree to reduce their power use by a bit whenever they are called up on to do.

    FORBES: A Software Startup Helps Utilities Decode Smart Meter Data

  • "Let's see if we can't come up with some things we can agree on by the end of the day, " Thompson implored his colleagues.

    CNN: Fund-Raising Panel Changes Course

  • The anger at the local level may be understandable, but the pressure on lawmakers in Sacramento to agree on a budget had been cranking up in recent weeks, and the state was running out of options for short-term funding.

    ECONOMIST: California's budget

  • One of the advantages of using mediation in a business break-up is that both sides can agree on choosing a mediator they can trust, and one who has no interest in the business, bias or prior relationship with either party to the negotiation.

    FORBES: ADIOS/SAYONARA: Kicking a Bad Business Relationship To The Curb

  • Congress has until 23:59 EST on Friday (04:59 GMT on Saturday) to come up with an alternate budget plan that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

    BBC: Who will the 'sequester' budget cuts hurt?

  • For starters, you should agree in writing on how you want to split up your assets should your relationship end.

    FORBES: Civil unions and shared bank accounts

  • NHS, meet constantly to sort things out, and if they cannot agree on some issue at one level, up it goes to the next.

    ECONOMIST: The NHS is to spend billions on IT. Will it be spent well?

  • Until Republicans agree on what reform proposal to promote, roll up their sleeves and work out exactly how to implement it, radical tax reform will get nowhere.

    ECONOMIST: Binning the IRS

  • At KONE Americas, it took the executive team only a few days to commit to developing a slow-down-to-power-up mindset and a few more days to agree on core beliefs.

    FORBES: Slow Down to Speed Up

  • It will be followed by another get-together in March, before a conference convenes in Rome in June to agree on the final text of a treaty setting up the court.

    ECONOMIST: International criminals, beware

  • But experts agree that women, who make up the majority of users on all networking sites, are more likely to use social media for social reasons, while men generally use it for increasing status.

    FORBES

  • The German tax system is indeed riddled with exemptions, which narrow the tax base and push up tax rates, and most experts on efficient taxation agree it would make sense to do away with them.

    ECONOMIST: German business

  • Indeed, one significant reason for the hold-up was getting municipalities to agree to let Emmert "park" it on the road.

    WSJ: Levitated Mass | Arrival of a Rock Start | By Arnie Cooper

  • Congressional leaders cannot even agree on whether to pass new rules in pieces or roll them up into one mega-bill.

    ECONOMIST: Overhauling financial regulation

  • The law firms typically agree to take the cases on a contingency basis that means no fees up front but a huge share (30% or more) of any settlement or jury verdict.

    WSJ: Pay-to-Play and the Tort Bar

  • Over the coming months consultations will be held among all stakeholders regarding follow-up of the recommendations arising from the Barbados Conference and to agree on a date in 2007 and venue for the 7th Annual Conference of Caribbean Media.

    UNESCO: Education

  • Of the six core agenda items of the Tea Party, the American people agree with the Tea Party on five of them and have yet to make up their minds on the sixth.

    FORBES: Tea Party Agenda No. 6: Repeal ObamaCare

  • But one thing it did agree on was that compensation committees were largely to blame for the inexorable run-up of executive pay.

    FORBES: Help Wanted: Compensation Committee Chair

  • No one has even been able to come up with a list of names for the transitional mechanism that all parties can agree on.

    CNN: A Workable Plan

  • And thus, to bring up another issue, the left's stubborn insistence that all reputable scientists agree on human-caused global warming and its likely catastrophic consequences.

    FORBES: The Blind Side

  • Panetta is stepping up rhetoric about the impact of sequestration on the Pentagon if Congress does not agree to a plan in coming weeks to avert it.

    CNN: Military pay in play in game of political poker

  • Somehow they came up with shears and a straight razor and several of the staff gathered around to agree on a strategy.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • The speech came on the eve of a meeting between Obama and BP executives to demand that they agree to set up an independently administered escrow account funded with billions of dollars to pay claims stemming from the disaster.

    FORBES: BP: A Stock Even Value Investors Shun

  • The DUP's David McIlveen summed up the debate by saying members agreed the tax increase was a "bad thing" but could not agree on how to tackle it.

    BBC: Fuel Duty

  • And I hope you will also agree that while you are right to be angry with the banking sector, none of us can afford to give up on it.

    CNN: RBS CEO Hester: We can't afford to give up on banks

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定