Even as polls show the former secretary of state trouncing other Democratic contenders in a hypothetical primary, O'Malley has begun citing differences between him and Clinton on issues such as the minimum wage, social security benefits and a major trade deal brokered by the Obama administration that has irked progressives.
His own relationship with the troubled island nation dates back to the mid-1990s, when as a junior foreign officer minister he brokered an agreement between competing parties to co-operate in the search for peace.
The Northern Irish peace process talks brokered by Richard Haass collapsed without reaching an agreement As EU labour restrictions on workers from Romania and Bulgaria were lifted, the rightwing press's predictions of a stampede of eastern Europeans coming to claim benefits failed to materialise.
Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland Secretary, said if the parties ratified the agreement brokered today legislation could be put through parliament in January to devolve corporation tax poweres to the region.
However, they all managed to work together in the negotiations that led, in December 1973, to the Sunningdale Agreement, brokered by the Conservative prime minister Ted Heath (obituary, July 18), and in the shortlived power-sharing executive that took office in January 1974.
That was the year that Traffic brokered the famous sponsorship by Nike of the CBF but Nike is not actually named in the papers.
The Ukrainian government has agreed to launch discussions on giving more powers to the regions under a peace plan brokered by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) – a roadmap backed by Moscow but regarded with scepticism by Kiev.
She is banking on the hunch that the public and political mood has shifted firmly against the tax arrangements brokered by Luxembourg and other states.
After South Sudan fell into a civil war which displaced over 120,000 people, African leaders brokered a ceasefire.
The coach, Nuno Espírito Santo, was the first player whose transfer Mendes brokered, in 1997, and Mendes still represents Nuno.
Oman, the Gulf state politically closest to Iran, which brokered secret nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran in 2012, hailed the Lausanne agreement as historic.
