Sentence examples for Stand by agreements from inspiring English sources

We learned then that what the Iraqis could not give to each other, they were sometimes willing to give to us, as long as they could trust that we would stand by agreements and that we would do so at the highest levels of our government.

The government's belated embrace of an IMF programme last week earned it a long-delayed $700m tranche from an $18 billion stand-by agreement.

A new currency regime in early December supported by the first tranche of the IMF stand-by agreement led to the value of the krona rising by 25% in the three days to December 9th.

Without both, Ecuador will not get the stand-by agreement with the Fund that it needs to renegotiate its debts to bilateral official lenders abroad, and open the door to new multilateral lending.

Before the recent crisis, selling them would have been unthinkable.A third improvement is the adoption of crisis-prevention measures, such as the stand-by agreement that Argentina signed with a consortium of international banks last December.

The government has failed to finalise laws on tax reform, banking and social security, and as a result, its stand-by agreement with the IMF has yet to be renewed.

Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Updated at 8.44am GMT 8.19am GMT IMF agrees $14-18bn 14-18bny loan agreement with Ukraine Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund has agreed a $14-18bn stand-by agreement with Ukraine, a deal that will unlock further loans to reach a total of $27bn over the next two years.

Mr. Simsek says what is needed is a precautionary stand-by agreement and continued monitoring, but many outside investors say that Turkey requires a more direct rescue — akin to binding pacts reached with Ukraine, Pakistan and Hungary — to appease fretful markets.

"The stand-by agreement is necessary to avoid even greater damage to the country," Mr. Spalding said, explaining his decision to resign when the lawmakers refused to act on it.

Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, had been hoping that the European Union and the IMF, with whom the country still had a stand-by agreement at the time, would let the government finance tax cuts by running a deficit much larger than agreed.

And the rules for the indefinite article are rewritten to allow the affected "an horrendous" or "an humanitarian".G.R. KINGHeathfield, East SussexCutting schoolsSIR You say in your survey (March 20th) that Egypt's IMF stand-by agreement, which ended without renewal in 1998, "worked like a charm".