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But our goal here is to have an environment that maximizes that possibility of an agreement that works for the American people and that achieves the goals the President has laid out.
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They hail an agreement which allows the people of Scotland to determine their own future.
BBC: David Cameron, Alex Salmond and Scotland's referendum
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But since there is no assurance of an agreement, people in the defense sector are starting to get edgy as the clock ticks down.
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But in the end, compromise won out, and an agreement that we believe strongly is in the interest of the American people was achieved.
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The Owston's civets were originally moved to UK zoos as part of an international agreement with Cuc Phuong National Park that sees them held in trust for the people of Vietnam.
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And I have certainly allowed for the fact that that measure may not pass, and that if it does not pass we will move forward and try to find a way to reach an agreement that ensures that the American people, 160 million of them, get the kind of tax relief that this President firmly believes they deserve and need next year.
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And it is an incredibly important and historic agreement that we have achieved for the people of the Gulf of Mexico.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on BP Oil Spill
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"What this agreement represents is a breathing space, an interim period which the people of Afghanistan can take the first of many steps that will be required before a broad-based, multi-ethnic and truly-represented government can be established, " Brahimi added.
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If we're going to enter into an operational agreement we have to understand and be able to determine whether each of the people involved in that operational agreement is living up to the aspects of that agreement by finding out through transparency whether each of us is keeping up our end of the bargain.
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And, again, I will -- the way they left it in the meeting, there was an agreement that we would have this group of people do this.
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Earlier this month, Serbia rejected an agreement proposal because the terms did not "guarantee full security and protection of human rights to the Serb people in Kosovo".
BBC: Serbia and Kosovo reach EU-brokered landmark accord