But, in a development likely to irritate Washington, Chavez said he also hopes to cement an agreement to buy combat aircraft, specifically 24 K-8 planes for his countrys air force, from China.
Then there is supposed to be a Security Council resolution that would cement the agreement between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to rid Syria of the chemical arms.
After establishing an alliance with the Mongols in 1263, Michael VIII Palaiologos married two of his daughters to Mongol khans to cement their agreement: his daughter Euphrosyne Palaiologina was married to Nogai Khan of the Golden Horde, and his daughter Maria Palaiologina, was married to Abaqa Khan of the Ilkhanate.
Mr. Holzer said, "The Met's first priority was cementing an agreement for the show".
They cemented their agreement at the "19th hole," Mr. Alvarez said -- the club's bar.
The prospect of such a deal suggests that Citigroup is backing off its claim that it had cemented an agreement with Wachovia last week.
Cementing an agreement with Iran to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon is the Obama administration's highest diplomatic priority.
Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University with expertise in wills and family law, says that he had still more options: "If the father and his wife had in fact agreed that neither would inherit from the other, they could have cemented that agreement easily with a written waiver".
At the trial of former Sotheby's Chairman Taubman in a Manhattan federal court, Brooks took the jury through the plot step-by-step to a point soon after she had cemented the agreement with her Christie's counterpart, Christopher Davidge Christopher Davidge.
Since then, a slew of other rulings have followed, cementing that agreement in pretty much every market in the world.
As it turns out, cementing an agreement between Silicon Valley start-ups and a major bureaucracy can take far more than two months.
