In these new proclamations, Russia and the United States may be stumbling to a way forward, especially when each power recognizes that they are only small concessions away from agreement, and that history supports the Annan view.
The agreement makes an exception for Small Claims courts.
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The money will likely be small comfort to some, but the agreement itself is important if for no other reason than it helps to bring closure to an ugly period in recent economic history.
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In fact it was a small, determined step towards the Good Friday agreement 13 years later.
Another small triumph was the European Parliament's agreement last month that two outside committees be allowed to fine-tune European securities legislation.
Washington and Kabul are negotiating a bilateral security agreement that would allow for a small force to conduct training and counterterrorism missions.
The likelihood of an agreement within the next week appears small.
Compensation is an increasingly hot issue in the talks, with small nations demanding the inclusion in any 2015 agreement of a "loss and damage mechanism" whereby rich nations would pay them to rebuild from, say, extreme storms.
National Grid announced an agreement Thursday to buy power from a small project set to be built by Deepwater Wind near Block Island, R.
Now, before you start dismissing this as soft-as-tofu logic that just randomly happened to work at Coca-Cola, other experts at this small conference held at the Venetian chimed in in agreement.
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Mahmoud Abbas (alias Abu Mazen), the Palestinian president, last week announced a small but perhaps significant first step towards that: an agreement that militant groups would no longer parade with their weapons on the streets.
Under the FDA agreement, the biosimilar application fee will be waived for a small business submitting its first biosimilar biological product application.
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We set up a small team to meet with his folks and two weeks later we had an agreement to sell him convertible preferred stock at 9.25%.
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This free trade agreement will bring numerous benefits to our workers, our companies, our small businesses and our consumers alike.
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Last month, it signed a production agreement with Japanese rival Nissan Motor to supply it with 36, 000 small cars for sale in Japan.
He used the phrase "common ground" repeatedly, speaking of potential agreement on a higher minimum wage (if paired with tax cuts for small businesses) and seeing prospects for sweeping change in immigration laws and the management of Social Security.
We've found, through a leaked Scottish government document, that there's cross-party agreement that dependence on offshore oil and gas revenue is no way for a small country to plan its budgets.
The Egyptian government is still trying to convince Hamas to accept its most basic criteria calling for a small number of European and Palestinian Authority monitors at the crossing, in line with the agreement that was signed with Israel when its forces withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
First, Mr Mugabe turned up with 22 ministers, whereas the agreement generously gave him 15 cabinet posts to the MDC's 13, with a small opposition group led by Arthur Mutambara getting three.
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Small island states and many of the world's poorest nations are demanding that Cancun must see agreement of a legally binding global treaty, but many others are pushing for a "bottom-up" approach that would seek small but concrete agreements in key areas such as REDD.
It recently announced an agreement in principle with China's Chery Automobile Company, for instance, to develop a small car for sale in North America and Western Europe.
In their letter they pointed out that this agreement would eliminate barriers to US farm products and manufactured goods while providing new sales opportunities for small, medium and large companies and their employees as well as American farmers and ranchers. (See Letter in Main News below).
Leaders from both parties in the Senate came together to reach an agreement that passed with overwhelming bipartisan support today that protects 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small business owners from a middle class tax hike.
And Lloyds says lending both to businesses in general and to important small businesses are on course to beat the targets for 2011 agreed with the Treasury in the so-called Merlin agreement.
The ECB may have been central but, like other institutions, it signed off on an initial agreement that was widely criticized because it would have taxed all depositors in Cyprus banks, even those with small accounts.
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