These commitments are sometimes called 'WTO-plus' (consistent with but that go beyond WTO agreements) and 'WTO-X' (outside the WTO framework) [ 6], and are often focused on reducing 'behind the border' operations, measures imposed internally in the domestic market to address, for example, health and environmental standards [ 7, 8].
But in a Dec. 18 meeting with Bear Stearns executives at their headquarters on Madison Avenue, Mayor Bloomberg said the city would not go beyond the agreement it struck in 1997 to provide the company with $75 million in tax breaks and other incentives in return for its remaining in the city, building a new headquarters on Madison Avenue and promising to add thousands of new jobs.
Unfortunately, though, they have not been able to force this influence to go beyond the agreement and now face the power of Khamenei's public insistence that dealings with the United States do not go beyond the nuclear realm, while his principlist supporters in the judiciary and Revolutionary Guard detain dual citizens in order to prevent any further détente.
Rosneft said: "As a result of the negotiating process between BP and AAR, Rosneft has received proposals which go beyond the previous agreements and do not require the extension of the deadline which expired on 16 May.
"The Saudis wanted to go beyond the original agreement and dictate to the Qataris, and the Qataris said no," said a well-placed Arab source.
By the same token there is a growing insistence that the government should not go beyond the coalition agreement in delivering Tory policies – unless these are clearly traded off with new Lib Dem policies, endorsed by the party.
… they have always been that way but you have to be businesslike, professional and you to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows From now on, the Liberal Democrats will not be accepting policies which go beyond last year's agreement with Tories – such as proposals for NHS reform.
In 1945, as president of the Allied Commission, his role in the handing over of Cossack prisoners of war to the tender mercies of the Soviets did not go beyond the Yalta agreement, despite subsequent claims (notably by Nikolai Tolstoy) that his actions had made him an accessory to mass murder.
As president, he said, he would "work to forge a more effective framework in Asia that goes beyond bilateral agreements, occasional summits, and ad-hoc arrangements such as the six-party talks on North Korea".
