Sentence examples for global accord from inspiring English sources
No one expects participants to emerge onto the snowy streets of Davos triumphantly waving a global accord on bank supervision.
Many, including Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the world-wide web, see the marco civil as a useful template for a global accord.
The average temperature goal, which translates into 3.6F, is the upper limit targeted by the UN, which is seeking to enshrine it in a global accord in December.
Another potential bone of contention is one of President Obama's nuclear objectives: a global accord to end the production of new nuclear fuel.
In 1996, the United States championed the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, a global accord meant to end the development of new kinds of nuclear arms.
And a global accord will remain beyond reach unless large emerging markets such as India and China are brought on board.
They often kill people anyway, and their development can undermine global accords meant to eliminate chemical and biological weapons that are far more deadly.
Regulators are now examining whether these transactions explain the missing money at MF Global, according to people briefed on the investigation.
The House Financial Services subcommittee will also focus its attention on the patchwork of 20 regulators and federal agencies charged with oversight of MF Global, according to a Congressional memo.
Neither has his deputy, Bradley Abelow, who was the chief operating officer at MF Global, according to a person close to the case.
Although the new Basel 3 global accords on capital adequacy are tough enough to have saved almost all banks during the crisis, a handful of firms worldwide, including HBOS, were outliers that lost far more than the average.
