Sentence examples for a small agreement from inspiring English sources

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I suspect it'll be a small agreement.

"If you get a small agreement, that will lead to a downgrade," he told Reuters.

"If you get a small agreement, that will lead to a downgrade," he said in the July 14 interview.

Hence his decision, taken after the failure of Boehner's Plan B, to try and get a smaller agreement — one largely confined to raising taxes on at least some rich people and extending unemployment benefits — which won't actually have much impact on the deficit, and which won't even address many of the big spending questions.

The two budget deals last year — the deficit-reduction compromise in August and a smaller agreement before that — called for cutting $1.7 trillion from so-called discretionary spending, which covers the bulk of federal programs whose budgets Congress controls annually, including air-traffic control, the military, education, research and much more.

Obama goes on the say that the GOP has been made various offers, and they've thus far turned them down, and so now Obama has scaled back the deal to a smaller agreement that would involve tax rates and unemployment insurance.

In Canada the opposition scoffed at Mr Baird when he described it as a "small administrative agreement".

Not only is it a thoughtless and uncaring act, but I would have thought that the president, who negotiates peace terms for warring factions all over the world, could have figured out a small peace agreement between a cat and a gentle Labrador.

For carious teeth, those authors found with 54%, only a small sensitivity (agreement) of the x-ray findings with the clinical findings [ 10].

By Wednesday night, some small agreement between the old enemies had emerged.

The main advantage of list-decoding over unique decoding is that it can tolerate very small agreement thresholds also.