But there is no extension without an agreement on something big -- a firm, committed agreement on something big.
The European Central Bank had threatened to cut crucial emergency assistance to the country's banks by Tuesday without an agreement.
Without an agreement on the status of Kosovo, any lull in the killing is likely to be just that, a lull.
But without an agreement, investors will continue to wonder whether they can trust the financial statements that come out of China.
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The trouble is that Alaska is doing very nicely without an agreement.
Other cabinet members besides the science minister would like to see the army leave south Lebanon, even without an agreement with Syria.
Amazon and Google launched their services without an agreement with the labels, and users of their cloud music services must upload their music.
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Saints had entered a period of exclusivity with the Pinnacle group to arrange a takeover but that passed on 19 June without an agreement.
If we hit August 2nd without an agreement and for the first time lose our borrowing authority, the impact of that will be felt dramatically, without question.
Determined not to let the summit pass without an agreement, Ms. Merkel invited the French president, who objected to the German push for bondholder losses, to Berlin.
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But as the unsecured creditors committee noted a few weeks ago, American Airlines can certainly exit restructuring without an agreement, although that is certainly not our preference.
Barring any last-minute agreement, New York City would be one of only a handful of districts across the state without an agreement by a state deadline of 11:59 p.m.
But it was launched without an agreement with the music industry after very lengthy negotiations, which, according to Eric Schmidt, did not fail for lack of effort on Google's part.
But what Livni has shown - both through her political behavior and her strategic outlook - is that the country and the Netanyahu government are better off without an agreement with the Americans and without Kadima and its leader in the government.
Aides say Clinton wants to work to the last possible minute in hopes of bridging the differences, and if he fails, he wants to work a few minutes more urging the parties not to let the peace process collapse if they leave Camp David without an agreement.
Not to mention that also at stake is how the prospect of billions of dollars would be divvied up and that with each passing day without an agreement the calendar moves closer to mid-July, which some league and franchise officials believe is the time that preseason games would be begin to be canceled.
And would you consider leaving any troops in Afghanistan beyond that date without an immunity agreement for their actions?
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The attorneys conferred on the estate dispute during a morning recess that stretched to more than 90 minutes without reaching an agreement.
Nor does it consider for long the exposed implications of using sterling without getting an agreement on the currency and Bank of England.
Other partners had contributed two years of labor without an employment agreement setting forth what their duties were and what their resulting ownership stake would be.
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"I will be in touch soon, " was how EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton described her next contact with Iran after talks in Almaty ended without even an agreement to meet again.
Remembering similar bipartisan talks on major issues, such as the Gang of Six that spent months working on a health care overhaul in 2009 without every reaching an agreement, they want to make sure Congress gets legislation to consider.
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.
This month, talks in Kazakhstan broke down without any advances or an agreement on when to have further discussions.
Why do you think we have well established marathon bargaining sessions where both sides are tortured to go without sleep to reach an agreement?
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The point that the President had always made is that it is not his preferred option, but he knew that he would have to compromise in order to reach an agreement without sacrificing the principles that are clear, and that is that we have to have balance.
As I write in Three Felonies a Day, the feds forced the accounting firm KPMG to enter into an unjust deferred prosecution agreement because an indictment would without any doubt have destroyed it.
And when Congress returns, I urge them to keep working, without drama, without delay, to reach an agreement that extends this tax cut as well as unemployment insurance through all of 2012.
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Another possibility is to ensure all Texas homeowners the right to an installment agreement to pay back delinquent taxes and resolve the issue on their own without an expensive and risky property-tax loan.
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