Sentence examples for Understood agreement from inspiring English sources

It is understood agreement has been reached in principle on a contract set to run to 2019, with a break clause inserted after 18 months.

An unwritten, widely understood agreement in Nigerian politics holds that power at the top is supposed to alternate between a northerner and a southerner; Mr. Jonathan, by effectively taking office before the end of Mr. Yar'Adua's term, violated that rule, some of the late president's supporters felt.

Another interesting element to this is that the main component of this understood agreement between the two companies was Schmidt's position with each, one source tells us.

We have seen for ourselves how attempts to negotiate licenses or settle disputes without a common understanding of the systems involved may result in vague and poorly understood agreements, and worse, unnecessary conflict between parties.

Context, then, is intersubjective: it is the product of the vague but commonly understood agreements of how to define the world and of what subjectivities overlap significantly enough to function in, and be represented as, conventional reality.

I have read and understood this agreement.

In court today, the boys, dressed in oversize green prison jumpsuits, stood and answered, "Yes, your honor," when asked repeatedly if they understood the agreement.

It is understood that agreement was reached last May after Chilcot, whose team was allowed access to classified material, warned that he could not publish a credible report unless the inquiry was allowed to publish a substantial amount of the correspondence.

While the final details of the deal have yet to be formalised, it is understood an agreement is in place.

Thus understood the agreement is not itself a binding act it is not a performative that somehow creates obligation but is reason-revealing (Lessnoff 1986).

The company said it had understood the agreement to mean that it would lay its fiber-optic network along the same route previously used for its copper line, and that the city's interpretation was impractical.