Sentence examples similar to agreement was closed from inspiring English sources

We have been talking with many interested parties but unfortunately we have not been able to financially sustain our operations until the agreements were closed.

Martínez said he believed an agreement was close.

After a final meeting on Friday morning, both sides finally said an agreement was close.

Mr Tsipras even said he believed an agreement was "closer than ever".

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has claimed an agreement was close, but that the BMA had walked out after less than an hour of renewed talks on Monday.

The official said that the most recent talks with Iraqis had given American negotiators confidence that a final agreement was close.

DETROIT, Saturday, Sept. 15 — Negotiators for the United Automobile Workers union and General Motors bargained past a midnight contract deadline without any sign of whether an agreement was close.

She believed an agreement was close to being reached with the union but said she was "concerned that the union movement did not withdraw its strike action".

Kean confirmed an agreement was close for Eric Black to be appointed as the new assistant manager and that French striker Anthony Modeste is having a medical ahead of a six-month loan deal from Bordeaux.

Mr. Brahimi made clear afterward that no agreement was close, and reiterated the need for a political solution to the conflict, which began as a movement demanding democratic reform and transformed into civil war.

So, an act was not a real possibility last week, despite Theresa May, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the press being briefed that an agreement was close.