Sentence examples for agreements to challenge from inspiring English sources
But these are weak half-measures at best that will not protect American law — and the laws of other countries — from being usurped by the tobacco industry, which is increasingly using trade and investment agreements to challenge domestic tobacco control measures.
We need strong language to prevent multinational corporations -- like Big Tobacco -- from using trade agreements to challenge health and safety laws.
Fossil fuel corporations, such as ExxonMobil and Chevron, have used such rights under past trade and investment agreements to challenge policies.
Several American and Canadian companies have used the agreement to challenge unfavorable actions of local governments.
TransCanada has even intimated that it would use similar rules in the North American Free Trade Agreement to challenge a U.S. decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
Drug industry executives said that provision was a sign of how badly their backers on Capitol Hill want to see trade agreements used to challenge foreign governments' price-control systems, especially when Americans are flocking to Canada to buy inexpensive medicine.
For years, European and American leaders followed a gentleman's agreement not to challenge each other's tax breaks.
TransCanada is using rules in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to challenge a central tenet of democracy: that people can sway their elected governments to do the right thing.
"A swift agreement would help to challenge the perception that governments in the euro zone never reach agreement on anything without squabbling about it for months on end," said Ken Wattret, chief euro zone economist for BNP Paribas in London.
The tobacco giant is using ISDS provisions in Australia's free-trade agreement with Hong Kong to challenge plain-packaging laws that have been upheld by Australia's high court.
The Bodies were a successful tag team in Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and an interpromotional agreement allowed them to challenge for the WWF Tag Team Championship.
