Sentence examples for as a pact from inspiring English sources

As a pact, Lizarra is dead, says Mr Urkullu.

Better, he suggests, to define marriage simply as a pact of mutual love and care, and leave all the other rules to be negotiated depending on the couple.

He denounced as a pact with heresy the Peace of Augsburg, the first permanent legal basis for the existence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany.

The rightwing opposition, led by former president and now senator Álvaro Uribe, has decried the deal on justice as a pact for impunity.

Before the Civil War, abolitionists like Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison conceded that the Constitution protected slavery, but denounced it as a pact with the devil that should be ignored.

Where many were stimulated and intrigued by our question, quite a number of correspondents refused to have anything to do with it, denouncing 'list culture' as a pact with the devil of popular culture.

Monbiot even approvingly quoted the Sudanese delegate Lumumba Di-Aping, who denounced the Copenhagen accord as "a suicide pact, an incineration pact, in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries".

"I think of it as making a pact with the voters of other parties," William Hague told a fringe meeting.

He dismisses as "recycling" a pact announced by the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault – a former Breton mayor – last month to defuse the red caps' protests, providing for €2m of investment in the region.

Years ago my husband and I made a pact that as long as we both worked we would share equally in the chores and childcare.

As part of a pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Red Army occupied Vilna, now Vilnius.