Since the 1930s, in fact, 94percentt of pacts between the United States and other countries have been executive agreements and just 6percentt have been treaties submitted to the Senate, according to a study by Glen Krutz of the University of Oklahoma and Jeffrey Peake of Clemson University.
It resulted in a pact between old and new elites, which preserved previous interest groups in power -- and allowed Yanukovych to become president in 2010.
The reserve pool was created in a pact between the city and the teachers' union that ended seniority rights in staffing decisions and stopped the automatic transfer of teachers whose positions were eliminated.
The escape clause in the pact between the Government and Occidental is the requirement that the company re-investigate other alternatives every two years.
The deaths at sea of a mother and child have further exposed the flaws in a pact between Italy and Libya that has led to thousands of migrants being forcibly returned to the chaotic north African country.
A law was passed granting it generous autonomy, as promised last August in a pact between the government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which formally ended a 29-year armed struggle.
In the heart of this region on the Peruvian border and at least 20 days' walk from the nearest town is the Kapawi Eco Lodge, a tourism venture created in a pact between the Achuar community and the same Ecuadorian business venture, Canodros, that owns the Explorer II cruise ship.
I believe that implicit in the pact between citizenry and soldier is the promise of not only health care, but high quality health care.
The signing in September of two security pacts between the Afghan government, Nato and the US brought renewed optimism to the country.
But the electoral maths will be difficult for any strategist to calculate this time, with pacts between the DUP and UUP in two seats, Traditional Ulster Voice fielding only one candidate, and Sinn Fein enjoying improved fortunes since the renewable heating scandal.
