"direct agreements" is a valid phrase in English.
It can refer to any agreement or deal that is made between two or more parties without the involvement of intermediaries. For example: The two sides signed a direct agreement on trade relations.
Direct agreements to maintain resale prices are per se illegal in the United States and subject to "hard-core restriction" in Europe.
The First and Second Mediterranean Agreements of 1887 joined Great Britain to the powers (Austria-Hungary and Italy) interested in blocking Russia from the Straits and enabled Kálnoky to abandon direct agreements with Russia.
A radical labour-market reform has made it less expensive to lay off workers, and allows firms to bypass the national unions and reach direct agreements with their staff.The collapse of the property-induced revenue bubble left Spain with a structural fiscal deficit of 6% of GDP, according to Fernando Fernández of the Instituto de Empresa, a Madrid business school.
In neighbouring Canada, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made battling climate change a priority for his administration, many provinces, including populous Quebec and Ontario, are now making direct agreements with states and cities on cap-and-trade agreements and other environmental initiatives.
Most are sold "over the counter" (OTC), meaning by direct agreement between the two parties rather than through an exchange.
Ms. Berger said that while an owner typically will have no direct agreement with a subcontractor, it is possible for a subcontractor to take action that will affect the owner.
What is known of the OFT's new investigation suggests something far more complicated than the standard textbook cartel: it concerns a wide range of branded goods rather than a direct agreement about a single, often dull, product.
At the head of government stood the khan of the foremost Tatar state (the Kazan khanate), part of whose family joined the Russian nobility by direct agreement in the 16th century.
The Oslo negotiations tried to tackle the missing element of all previous talks - a direct agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, represented by the PLO.
The closest direct agreement between the large- and small-scale data were obtained for pool fires involving PP and nylon 6.6 product yield.
That contract, awarded by The 45th Space Wing of the Air Force, is the first direct agreement the U.S. Air Force has completed with a venture-backed orbital launch company that wasn't also being subsidized by billionaire owner-operators.
