The phrase "a sort of pact" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an agreement or understanding that is not formal or is somewhat ambiguous in nature.
Example: "They entered into a sort of pact to support each other through difficult times."
Alternatives: "a kind of agreement" or "a type of arrangement."
Zeder characterized domestication as an ongoing symbiosis between humans and another species — "a sort of pact that ends up being mutually beneficial," she said.
Zeder characterized domestication as an ongoing symbiosis between humans and another species—"a sort of pact that ends up being mutually beneficial," she said.
A day after the debt deal, Senate leaders reached a sort of pact on moving the free-trade agreements forward.Round the country, too, there are gleams of useful reform.
In a sort of pact with Beelzebub, publishers send them books in galley form -- about 25,000 annually -- three or four months ahead of publication, allowing them to render their judgments much before anybody else can, in Kirkus's case by six to eight weeks.
They've formed an alliance of convenience, a sort of pact with the devil, with the very man who tried to bomb them out of existence five years ago.
However, many have been getting a makeover in the last couple years, so outfits like Founders Factory is linking corporates up with startups in a sort of pact of mutual benefit across several verticals.
Have they made any sort of pact?
Where it is appropriate, only one progressive candidate could stand in a seat – a sort of electoral pact.
Since 1974, the Legislature has been frozen with Democratic control of the Assembly and Republican control of the Senate, allowing a sort of nonaggression pact to develop over redistricting.
While city officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the Giuliani administration and the fog of the transition were to blame for many of the expenditures, Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Giuliani have a sort of nonaggression pact between them.
