"She basically agreed to do nothing," one aide said.
And once you start reading, you've already basically agreed to play along.
Some families preserve peace through disagreements by basically agreeing to disagree without any explicit acknowledgement of the conflict.
"We have basically agreed to bake the pie first before fighting over how to split it," Mr. Savander said.
In such instances, a court may find that no "true" option was reached and that the parties basically "agreed to agree" at some subsequent point.
First, all the relevant countries have to basically agree to abstain from action, and trust that the F.D,I.C. will be able to stabilize the enterprise.
He could then authorize the car division's general manager, with whom he basically agreed, to move quickly in designing water-cooled cars for the immediate market demand.
The remarks, by Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, suggested that his announcement less than two weeks ago that Iran had basically agreed to allow access to agency inspectors may have been premature.
People close to the deal said Disney was basically agreeing to pay $70 million for "The Sorcerer's Stone," and therefore at least $60 million for the second movie, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".
Here's the problem: By joining the W.T.O., China is basically agreeing to replace its current mixed economy -- part free market, part state controlled -- which is run by the arbitrary decisions of the Communist Party, with an increasingly free-market economy that will abide by international rules, on trade, tariffs and investments, set by the W.T.O.
