Sentence examples for gain agreements from inspiring English sources

Federal officials said today's settlement in the case that was brought last November was a legal wedge to gain agreements with the other six utilities.

It says reforms in this area would bring certainty and simplicity to a system currently dependent on "planning gain" agreements, under which developers agree to provide community facilities in return for planning permission.

Because Cosla seeks to represent the views of all 32 Scottish councils, it is rarely possible for it to gain agreements to take a stand on any controversial party political issue.

The Canada Act also contained a formula for its amendment in Canada, a subject that had defeated attempts to gain agreement on a new constitution as far back as 1927.

The new map, proposed by the Democrats, was selected last month by a Denver District Court judge, Robert S. Hyatt, after competing plans for incorporating the 2010 Census numbers failed to gain agreement.

Veterans of past negotiations said the air of crisis was reminiscent of the negotiations that preceded the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which laid down a blueprint for peace in the province, and the years of subsequent talks that were needed to gain agreement on the power-sharing institutions in Belfast.

After some early compromise, which was welcome, the EU walked out on the second day as the chair was unable to gain agreement from countries like Pakistan and South Africa to remove a footnote which might limit the treaty to transnational companies, and exclude domestic-only companies.

I served on the staff of the United States Embassy in Beirut in that period, and along with my colleagues met with all contending factions in a vain attempt to gain agreement for the reconstructed Lebanese Army to assume responsibility for security in areas under control of the factional militias.

"They've tried to talk to the management and gain agreement but that's not happened so they are considering now going directly to the shareholders".

The search process made it clear that we needed to gain agreement about how we as a board wanted to relate to the next CEO.

Ambiguous cases were discussed to gain agreement.