Sentence examples for agreement a contract from inspiring English sources

One way to protect against this is to sign a prenuptial agreement, a contract stating how assets will be divided should the marriage end.

It was Thomas Hobbes who most famously argued that our political obligations to one another are based on an implicit agreement — a contract that develops out of the idea that if we act as a body, and put aside some of our personal interests in the interests of that body, we are all better off.

The collaborating partners must first formalise an agreement (a contract) that allows them to understand how information within the collaboration will be used between partners.

Smith and Alvi also said Vice will no longer make employees sign its "non-traditional workplace agreement," a contract intended to acknowledge they might deal with "offensive, indecent, violent or disturbing content" in the course of their work, but which some interpreted to mean they could not complain about harassment.

Following several recent catastrophes in Bangladesh, international organizations made a strong push for apparel companies to sign onto the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement, a contract that asked companies and brands to implement safety standards and monitoring of factory work.

On November 9, AA flight attendants, by 16 votes, surprisingly rejected the "Tentative Agreement," a contract that had been in various stages of negotiation for over two years.

Like Dworkin, Stavropoulos uses the linguistic or 'semantic' mode,[3] treating a legal dispute, such as whether an agreement is a contract, as a dispute over whether the concept 'contract' applies to an agreement.

"The coalition agreement is a contract.

"Reach agreement on a contract extension.

But the two men were nonetheless unable to reach an agreement on a contract for transit workers.

"The agreement is a contract," said an administration official involved in the deal.