However, she added that there was every chance agreement could be reached.
Of course, even with the Boehner tax hike on the table, there is a good chance an agreement will fail.
As for health care, Ryan said, he sees no chance for bipartisan agreement there.
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And I think you'll have a chance to see agreement on -- hopefully agreement on some of those ideas.
Consulting firm The Leading Edge also minimizes the chance of an agreement.
These differences, along with a number of other sticking points, have scotched the chance of an agreement any time soon.
Better a strong weak agreement that has a good chance of being honoured than a weak strong agreement that is likely to collapse.
So if she had a chance to make an agreement, she was actually adding political capital, not taking it away.
Netanyahu sounded themes popular with his conservative followers, repeatedly referring to Israel as the Jewish national homeland and demanding recognition of that by all Arab foes, including the Palestinians, for any chance at a peace agreement.
The thinking is that this will build momentum for bigger issues, and it's a philosophy that, in the early hours after this election, is being embraced by some senior White House officials who see a chance to forge bipartisan agreement on various trade deals.
Still, the chance for a contract agreement is limited by the bankruptcy time frame, by the gap between the parties and, if there were to be an agreement, by a perception among some pilots that rejecting a tentative agreement could augment the possibility of a merger with US Airways.
If you are organized, dressed and clean, honest you have better chance or coming to an agreement you both can live with.
So hard that - as the European Commissioner Olli Rehn confirmed this morning - there is now little chance of them reaching an agreement before next week's Ecofin meeting.
"With little chance of cross-party agreement, legislating became guerrilla warfare, marked by cloture motions and filibusters, legitimate devices in the senatorial arsenal but hardly the path to well-crafted legislation to attract bipartisan support, " she wrote.
At the IWC meeting in Morocco, there was a real chance of emerging with an agreement under which Japan would have pledged to cut its Antarctic catch of minke whales to a few hundred per year now and 150 per year in 2015.
But the operation may at least have bought a breathing space in which the various factions can have one more try at reaching a peace agreement that has some chance of being implemented.
Even with the recent debt ceiling agreement, there is a good chance that disagreements between Democrats and Republicans will result in the opposite: excessive tightening in the short term, on the order of 2% of GDP in 2012, without a credible path to set public debt on a declining path within 5 years.
This time, there is a chance that the rival militias will not undermine the agreement as before.
Unless Google and Hulu have some sort of agreement here, there is a good chance Hulu will block Google TV , just as it has already blocked a few other web browsers designed for the TV, such as Boxee and the newer Kylo.
It's my opinion, based on my understanding of this agreement, that we have an excellent chance, provided we're willing on both sides of the aisle to roll up our sleeves and to make this agreement what it's supposed to be and what we all want it to be.
It has started talking to Japan about a free-trade agreement, and diplomats say there is a chance that the limited trade-liberalisation pacts struck with America could develop into a full-blown free-trade deal.
Without agreement on a revenue number, there is zero chance of a successful tax reform.
Scott Gration, Barack Obama's energetic new special envoy to Sudan, believes that the best chance of peace for this divided country remains the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 between the Islamist government in Khartoum, in the north of the country, and the former rebels of south Sudan, who are quite separate from the Darfuris, and had been fighting their northern masters for most of the past half-century.
Mr Dobson's reluctant agreement to stand has given the prime minister a good chance of wriggling off the hook.
Later that day, before I even had a chance to brief my partner, the landlord reneged on our verbal agreement and killed the whole deal.
These traders, who may be long in their core gold position, could be looking for a chance to profit on a temporary dip in prices if a debt ceiling agreement is passed.
Whatever you call it, it is clearly a defeat for a coalition which declared that, without agreement on how to timetable its business, there was no chance that Lords reform would ever happen.
But agreement seems to be elusive and without it there's a chance Labour and the Lib Dems might be able to push Leveson-style statutory regulation through.
And so you wonder - if developing countries are serious about getting an agreement here, why would they submit demands that have as much chance of success as a chocolate teapot?
By unspoken agreement, reporters had refrained from approaching him, but it was a chance that seemed unlikely to come again.
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