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Industrial nations can at best give a developing country a shallow surface insight into their know-how, and even then only in the context of foreign investment deals in which developed countries that host foreign direct investment inflows skilfully negotiate and secure such agreements, and have skilled workforces to absorb and expand on such prowess.
Since then, peace deals with the warlords, including a lucrative amnesty and government contracts, have pacified the area.
Congress could reach deals on all three by the end of the year.
"Britain [should] demand the highest standards of environmental protection in trade deals , and lead international efforts to improve air quality in cities in developing countries," said the MPs.
The way he deals with the inevitable rumours about his sexuality ("Who does it hurt if someone thinks I'm gay"?) is wonderfully beguiling, and that's before we've even started on his humanitarian work in Darfur and Haiti, not to mention his friendship with President Obama, recently in the news following Clooney's bust-up with Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.
The first task is to reform the way the Bank of England deals with the banking system – the most conservative and hidebound relationship in any advanced industrialised country.
When a UK Labour leader states live on television, as Ed Miliband did, that he would rather inflict upon the people five years of a rightwing, cuts-driven Tory administration rather than do any deals with another left-of-centre party, you know the time has come to let them go.
The people who run our supermarkets, obsessed as they are with "price matching" and "meal deals ", seem not to have noticed this.
Green shoot rating 3 out of 5 Mergers and acquisitions have been all but non-existent since the credit crunch took hold, but figures from the Zephyr database, which tracks such activity, shows the value of deals in the first three months of this year up 40% on 2008 levels to £214bn.
The documents handed over to HMRC allegedly show how Google's London sales staff would negotiate and sign contracts with British customers, and cash was paid into a UK bank account, but the deals were technically booked through its Dublin office to minimise its liabilities here.
It's not fair," she told the Guardian of the Luxleaks furore, in which thousands of documents were released detailing tax deals between some of the world's largest companies and the Grand Duchy.
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The phrase "deals" primarily functions as a noun , often referring to negotiated agreements or transactions. Ludwig examples show it used in contexts ranging from trade agreements to political arrangements, highlighting its versatility as a descriptor for various forms of exchange or understanding.
Expression frequency: Very common
