We believe there is momentum behind the idea of a balanced approach to a significant agreement.
In April Serbia signed a significant agreement with the EU, the first on its road to eventual accession.
We are about finding a way to get to a significant agreement and a deficit reduction of a significant size.
The unscripted moments are likely to be the most interesting at the summit as there is no significant agreement expected on any of the major issues.
And in June 2010, the two countries signed an historic trade pact that was described by some analysts as the most significant agreement in 60 years of separation.
Because that significant agreement is right there on the table to be achieved if people are willing to lead and to compromise and not posture and not cater to segments of their own constituency.
Reports indicate that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, negotiating through the Gang of Eight senators, had reached significant agreement Friday on a new visa program to bring up to 200, 000 lower-skilled workers a year to the country.
"This significant agreement ensures that our customers will continue to have access to dozens of ABC, Disney and ESPN networks for years to come and, for the first time, they will be able to enjoy Disney and ESPN programming outside the home, " said James L. Dolan, Cablevision's president and CEO.
What is at issue here is can we get something -- how significant an agreement.
Still hung up by bickering is a bill that initially had significant bipartisan agreement: the creation of a Homeland Security Department.
Akorn Chief Executive Arthur Pryzbyl calls the newly inked marketing agreement significant.
Mr. COHEN: I think that what is very significant about this agreement is that it was the urgency of the secretary of State getting involved.
"The Clinton administration does not want to be the first in several decades not to have signed a significant arms control agreement with Moscow, " says former diplomat and Clinton administration official Thomas Graham Jr.
The break-up consideration due to Deutsche Telekom under the terminated Stock Purchase Agreement also included significant Advanced Wireless Services ("AWS") spectrum and a long term agreement on Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems ("UMTS") roaming within the USA. T-Mobile USA incurred transaction-related costs in 2011 that primarily reflect incremental personnel costs as a result of the formerly proposed deal.
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Proponents argue that the agreement offers significant opportunities for the United States and that failure to abide by its terms, painstakingly negotiated, could drastically worsen U.S.-Japan defense relations.
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Ensuring our innovators are protected with strong and enforceable IP provisions is essential if we are to reap the full benefits of a multi-nation agreement as significant as the TPP.
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Another meeting is being held today that we hope will build on the productive meetings held already, and hopefully this process will lead to an agreement on significant deficit reduction.
And we believe that we can reach an agreement on significant deficit reduction within the same timeframe that we need -- that Congress needs to take action to raise the debt ceiling.
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.
There is also a negotiating process going on through these talks that the Vice President is overseeing, and the goal of that process is for each side to find common ground and to find an agreement for significant deficit reduction that all the parties to those talks can sign on to.
But CDS has said both sides have been unable to reach agreement over "significant issues".
This agreement represents a significant expansion of the previously anticipated population of healthy adults aged 40 and over.
"This agreement is very significant for the strategic relationship that exists between the governments of the United States and the United Arab Emirates, " he said.
And, earlier this year, the IRS increased the threshold for a streamlined installment agreement allowing individual taxpayers to set up an installment agreement without providing a significant amount of financial information.
Even the 1974 disengagement agreement remains unimplemented in such significant aspects as repopulation and troop levels.
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If the companies fail to reach an agreement, Clearwire would see significant downside.
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Even if less worrying forces are at work, an agreement would still represent a significant moment for both firms.
"Significant progress has been made toward an agreement at least with the troika which will report to the Eurogroup, " he said.
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That would be a significant achievement of the bipartisan balanced budget agreement.
The agreement also gives Samsung a significant ownership position in Seagate.
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