Sentence examples for agreements in the first from inspiring English sources

They are entitled to nonexclusive agreements in the first 2 years of an invention's life and exclusive deals thereafter.

Flanagan (1993: 49) calls the collapse of local or regional multi-employer agreements in the first half of the 1980s "the most dramatic change in official bargaining structures" in the USA since the 1930s New Deal policies.

He said the clauses should not have been proposed for the agreement in the first place.

The prosecutors had previously argued that problems of evidence led them to a plea agreement in the first place.

Organizers say they signed the agreement in the first place only because they feared that the city would rescind the parade permit if they did not.

The agency also had problems with provisions to allow Imperial to back out of the agreement in the first year if certain demands were not met.

But it is not worthy of a man who leads the government (along with the co-leader, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein) and spent endless hours negotiating the agreement in the first place.

If its recommendations are not agreed to — or if it can't come to an agreement in the first place — $1.5 trillion in cuts would be triggered, half of which would come from defense.

Many Tigers had no taste for the agreement in the first place, and decades of mistrust and suspicion did not dispose them to listen to reason once it had been signed.

"In instances such as this, where criteria for success will be unclear, it is not good practice to enter into such an agreement in the first place or to leave payment solely to the discretion of the procuring authority," said the NAO.

Newly opened diplomatic channels between Washington and Tehran, established during the final stretches of negotiating the nuclear agreement in the first half of last year, seem to have quickly ended the crisis and spared the sailors – nine men and nine women – a lengthier and more dangerous encounter.