After markets closed on Friday Aviva announced that it had reached a preliminary agreement with Friends Life to offer 0.74 of its shares for each share of Friends Life.
The foreshortened aim of the present-day dialogue - not to guarantee solutions, or agreements among friends or among enemies, but to serve as an occupation - seems to us sensible & hopeful.
Marriage contracts, or agreements among friends or the members of a religious, benevolent, or political association are often of this nature.
Deals between erstwhile adversaries are not handshake agreements between friends, where there's room for unsaid understandings.
By mutual agreement, the two friends now allow themselves to log on to Facebook on the first Saturday of every month — and only on that day.
In October 2013, when Russell Brand declared on Newsnight that he had never voted, not out of apathy but "out of absolute indifference and weariness", Denise Felkin noticed a ripple of agreement among her friends on social media.
Read the contract carefully before you sign, and get a clear agreement with your friends as to how much everyone will contribute, who will be paying the rent and bills from their bank account and how the others will pay their share.
If one thing becomes clear, it is that there exists a tacit agreement with our friends and neighbors to maintain decorum.
They signed a lease agreement, and with friends from the newly formed Maravilla Historical Society, she went to work, evicting the squatters and hauling away at least 30 truckloads of junk that had accumulated in sheds, the market and the small bungalow adjoining the court.
His friend Sagi, an Israeli Jew from Modi'in nods in agreement to his friend's statements.
