And hopefully it will result in a broad agreement on significant deficit reduction that then also allows the Congress to move forward with making sure that the United States of America does not for the first time in its history default on its obligations.
Advances over the past decade in this promising scientific field have been encouraging, leading to broad agreement in the scientific community that the research should be supported by Federal funds.
The SPL's 12 clubs reached a broad agreement in February to move towards a new 10-club top-tier and a second tier of 12 encompassing the SFL's current Division One sides.
Venezuelan democracy started in 1958 with a broad political agreement among the country's main democratic forces called the Pact of Punto Fijo.
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Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow, says that the two indices are in agreement as far as broad trends go.
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We believe that the test vote in the Senate last night, the procedural vote, demonstrates the broad bipartisan support that the agreement enjoys not just in the Senate but with the American people and that we believe that what the Senate will pass, we hope today, will be the framework for what is taken up and agreed quickly by the House of Representatives.
Health care has the opposite problem -- bipartisan agreement in principle on the broad framework but little evidence of progress on paper.
Talking to officials involved in launching negotiations for a broad new trade and investment agreement between the U.S. and the European Union, it's clear that even getting to the starting line has been an achievement.
Hovering in the background of their meeting in Vienna last week, which produced agreement on the broad outlines of a settlement, was the influential figure of Dragan Karic, one of three Serbian brothers whose business empire straddles Moscow and Belgrade.
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Implementing the disengagement by agreement with the PA would ensure a smooth transfer of responsibility for the vacated territory, make it easier to prevent attacks during the complex evacuation and provide an opening for continuing diplomatic negotiations aimed at an agreement that would enjoy broad international support in accordance with the roadmap.
In mid-September it sealed a broad, though nonexclusive, agreement with Universal Music Group to encode the label's active U.S. catalog of 14, 000 albums and 30, 000 music videos.
It should come as no surprise that the agreement has such profound flaws -- both in its broad outline and in its details.
In total, 70 services are covered by the broad scope of this new agreement.
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Yet this does not herald a broad-based agreement on how to involve the private sector in resolving financial crises.
There is broad agreement that leaders will increasingly be called upon to operate effectively in a multi-stakeholder world.
Across the European Union, there is broad agreement that the 15 member states need to co-operate in preparing for a chemical or biological attack, but little progress has been made.
In papers filed in the Western District Court of Wisconsin on Thursday, Apple and Google expressed broad agreement to use binding arbitration to resolve their issues surrounding standards essential patents.
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The Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) brings together 17 developed and developing economies to engage in a meaningful dialogue on clean energy technology and the need to secure a broad international agreement to combat climate change.
Recently key House and Senate leaders on postal reform have had productive discussions on a path forward, and while there may be some differences of opinion in some of the policy approaches needed to save the Postal Service, there is broad agreement that reform needs to happen -- the sooner the better.
Mr Napolitano called on the party leaders to reach agreement on a broad coalition, saying that was the only option open in the current circumstances.
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Mid-trial, city lawmakers said they'd reached broad agreement on a proposal to create an inspector general to oversee the department in part because of stop and frisk and a series of stories by The Associated Press on the monitoring of Muslims.
So bringing them, I think, within the umbrella of TPP, and ultimately a broad-based trans-Pacific free trade agreement, is going to benefit our business in Japan but also our business outside of Japan.
"Academies must provide a broad and balanced curriculum - this is one of the conditions of their funding agreement - and can specialise in one or more subjects, " a DfES spokeswoman said.
Although the tentative agreement that might emerge after the election is narrower in scope than the German system, it could have broad implications in France, where companies are struggling to avert layoffs and unemployment is near a 13-year high.
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