There is very broad-based agreement, across the political spectrum, that people selling things ought to be open and honest about what they're selling.
While a broad-based agreement may appeal to the White House, neither Senate Republicans nor Democrats may be as eager to embrace one.
Roy Cooper, the attorney general of North Carolina, which originally sued the T.V.A. in 2002 to rein in its pollution, said in an interview, "This is what we wanted — a broad-based agreement for the reduction of pollution from all its plants".
Pakistan, which is believed to have contacted the holders of 90% of its bonds, will probably get the support it is seeking for its restructuring.Yet this does not herald a broad-based agreement on how to involve the private sector in resolving financial crises.
As a first step, there is a need to develop a set of global norms and ethical principles; a broad-based agreement over these must be achieved.
This generates a particular type of path dependence, rendering broad-based international agreements more difficult in the future.
He continues to expect shares will appreciate on broad-based sales strength and developmental licensing agreements over 2007 to 2008.
Mr. Obama spoke, instead, of "engaging the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries with the goal of shaping a regional agreement that will have broad-based membership and the high standards worthy of a 21st-century trade agreement".
Since then, Washington has dictated the TPP agenda and has declared that it will set the "goal of shaping a regional agreement that will have broad-based membership and the high standards worthy of a twenty first century trade agreement".7 This triggered an interregional movement which would have been unlikely to occur otherwise.
Faced with such declarations and with no immediate prospect of resuming peace talks, Mr. Barak sat down with Mr. Sharon today to try and hammer out agreement on a broad-based government.
There does not seem to be any broad-based political opposition to an E.U.-U.S. trade agreement, as there was to Nafta.
