Sentence examples for agreement for years from inspiring English sources

"The district is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars of property and officials have been unable to come to agreement for years".

David Dinkins could not persuade the teachers' union to accept a raise the city could afford at a time of shrinking revenues in 1990, and the city suffered the consequences of an unaffordable agreement for years.

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who participants said served somewhat as a mediator during the session, said he warned the president not to try to move too quickly on immigration, saying a legislative failure on the issue like the one that occurred in 2007 could doom chances for any agreement for years.

Philip Peters, founder of the Cuba Research Center, a new nonpartisan group dedicated to analysis of Cuba, says that Mr. Gross must now rely once again on the same American and Cuban governments that have failed to reach an agreement for years.

We glance down at my tray table and I nod in agreement: For years I've been carrying the lightest laptops I can find.

Investor-state mechanisms have existed in investment agreements for years.

Those of us working in the fair trade movement, and in social justice have been working on fighting unjust trade agreements for years, and it is gaining momentum in the mainstream.

– Microsoft may extend the agreement for 5 years should Microsoft guarantee $3B net revenues per year.

"With this agreement, for ten years, the breakout time will be one year or more," he continued.

– Yahoo! may extend the agreement for 5 years with Microsoft bound to guarantee $1.6B per year.

Moreover, it appears that Iran is now willing to consider an agreement for 15 years, a compromise from its initial position of only five years.