An existing agreement, reached in 2008, obliges insurers to provide cover for high-risk properties while the government continues to improve flood defences.
Two further cases followed, the most recent triggered by the launch of iTunes - breaking an existing agreement, the Beatles claimed, that the Americans would keep out of the music business.
"It is folly to think that a man whose dishonesty has been cited by President Bush as grounds for introducing American troops into Saudi Arabia will actually faithfully observe a new international accord banning chemical weapons especially when he has violated an existing agreement prohibiting their use, " said Frank J.
But speaking on NBC's "Meet The Press, " Rahm Emanuel also said that Clinton would not necessarily veto any tax cut sent to the White House by Congress, provided it didn't bust an existing spending agreement that would balance the budget by 2002.
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It also claimed that the Bakrie family would then seek to enforce its rights under an existing shareholders' agreement, by litigation if necessary.
North Carolina received money to start improving existing track and an agreement was signed with rail freight company Norfolk Southern Railways to start exploring a major high-speed rail corridor between Charlotte and Raleigh.
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America's Mr Zoellick aims to portray the American concession as no more than an agreement to clarify existing rules, but that may not be how other WTO members see it or, more importantly, the American Congress.
As part of the agreement, Icahn can increase an existing stake of 13.6 percent to as much as 25 percent.
Under the terms of the agreement, Japan will modify an existing F-16 design to produce by the late 1990s a new aircraft, designated the FS-X (Fighter Support Experimental).
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Mostly, they have chosen to set up new banks rather than acquire existing ones, although Raiffeisen hopes later this month to clinch an agreement to buy Albania's savings bank.
How can the U.S. continue to pursue a global CW ban though such a ban cannot be effectively verified and despite the fact that a number of nations, including some who have violated existing CW conventions, have clearly indicated they will not be bound by such an agreement?
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