Sentence examples for force an agreement from inspiring English sources

Speaking today in Minnesota, Mr. Bush repeated his earlier call for Congress to complete work on tax credit legislation and get it to his desk, but he has not pressed a specific compromise proposal or tried to force an agreement.

Mr. Lazio suggested that the president had pushed too hard to force an agreement between Mr. Arafat and Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime minister, out of concern for his own legacy.

With President Obama trying to employ the power of the presidency to force an agreement, House and Senate leaders said votes could occur as early as Wednesday on competing proposals to slash spending in exchange for increasing federal borrowing authority that the Treasury Department says will be exhausted Aug. 2, raising the prospect that federal bills will go unpaid.

The meeting between the architect, Daniel Libeskind, and senior aides to the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, is the latest attempt by rebuilding officials to force an agreement over the future of the site and the degree of Mr. Libeskind's influence in the design and placement of the commercial office buildings there.

His gambit helped force an agreement that year to merge the two leagues, creating the modern NFL.

By threatening a government default, they forced an agreement, negotiated by Speaker John Boehner, that cut $2.3 trillion from the budget over a decade without a dime of new taxes.

Just this week she has forced an agreement from the EC competition commissioner to allow work to begin on providing broadband to the remoter rural areas of Britain, a result that was not expected, at the earliest, until January.

When negotiations stalled, Charles authorised General Montrose to land in the Orkney Islands with a small army to threaten the Scots with invasion, in the hope of forcing an agreement more to his liking.

Even so, Mr. Obama left the door open to keeping troops in Iraq to train Iraqi forces if an agreement could be negotiated.

"I think it's more than likely that he's playing brinkmanship with the S.E.C.," hoping to force a favorable agreement, Mr. Frawley said.

In a 2009 interview, KHL president Alexander Medvedev claimed that the unwillingness of NHL officials to immediately commit to the Sochi Games was "an instrument of pressure" to force a transfer agreement between the two leagues.