However, while I am in general agreement with much of what Holmes writes, I think he also makes a few crucial mistakes.
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Tech industry watchers are in general agreement that tablets were one of the biggest trends at the just-concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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The problem, of course, is that the Security Council can act only when the great powers of the world are in general agreement.
The Center for Security Policy noted today that the United States has officially dropped its major precondition concerning Soviet observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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The Bush Administration should at once repudiate its recent concession to Moscow which would permit the Soviet Union to obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
In contrast to the general agreement of commenters in favor of a baseline commercial data privacy framework, there was disagreement on the role for private rights of action in such a framework.
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This was a commitment made in the Coalition Agreement and in the general election manifestos of both coalition parties.
In general, an OIC is an agreement in which the IRS settles for less than the full amount owed.
The personal side of the equation can lead lots of voters to shy away from candidates with whose policies they are in general, albeit imperfect agreement.
It was embodied in organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund and in treaties such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
But while the world waits for brain powered computing there was general agreement that in many ways the key to easily accessible computing wasn't necessarily only a matter of greater sophistication.
Like most Internet and Web standards, IP was developed and is used by a multitude of stakeholders across the world and the general agreement codified in this standard has been essential to the growth and vibrancy of the Internet.
The promise to spend 0.7% of national income on aid by 2013 was put in the Conservative manifesto before the last general election and then repeated in the coalition agreement.
The final word and reference will still be resolution No. 687 with its obligations on both the Secretary General and Iraq, along will the code of conduct agreed upon in the agreement signed by the Secretary-General in New York on 16th September 2002, and the press statement of Hans Blix and (Mohamed) ElBaradei in Vienna ...
Under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, the United States undertook certain obligations on H-1B and L-1 visas.
Concessions (that is, permission to retain trade barriers) were sought and granted in successive negotiating rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
It was a victory for free trade, island style: the World Trade Organization ruling that the U.S. violated the General Agreement on Trade in Services by banning transactions with Internet gambling sites on the island of Antigua.
When former New York State comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty last year in a pension-fund investigation by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, he negotiated an agreement in which prosecutors stipulated there was no evidence to charge his sons with any crimes.
Rowley's discoveries of chromosome abnormalities in leukemia secured a common agreement among scientists, physicians and the general public that cancer is, in fact, a genetic disease.
There is no consensus on the precise impact, but there is general agreement that the shift in approach will almost certainly be a significant hit to the bottom line.
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In January 1989, General Dynamics signed a licensing agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to create Japan's next-generation fighter aircraft.
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Both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats ruled out a third runway at Heathrow in their 2010 general election manifestos and the coalition agreement continued this commitment.
On March 2, 2012, the UNESCO Director-General signed at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris an agreement between UNESCO and three universities, respectively -- The Islamic University of Gaza, the Al Aqsa University and Al Azhar University -- for the establishment of a UNESCO Chair in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences.
But there is no general agreement about where it should be extended in practice.
PHH, a mortgage and vehicle leasing company, terminated a merger agreement it had reached with General Electric in March that depended on Blackstone Group buying its mortgage business.
He was involved in the setting up of the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, two great mechanisms of development.
Will the Congress have an opportunity to examine the underlying agreement between General Dynamics and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in addition to the Memorandum of Understanding between the two governments?
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However, there is "general agreement that the placenta plays a key role in preeclampsia, and women with chronic hypertension and certain metabolic diseases like diabetes are more susceptible, " according to the Preeclampsia Foundation.
The myth of the solo entrepreneur has been debunked in a number of forums and it has become a point of general agreement that great ventures require successful teams to execute.
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