Sentence examples for less agreed to from inspiring English sources

But the only justifications Wu offered for China's claims to these features were the same historical arguments that we had already more or less agreed to disagree about, and which have no standing under the law of the sea.

(In this bargain, even before Obama's election, the private insurance industry had more or less agreed to stop discriminating against its customers on the basis of their health conditions, if Congress would agree to guarantee a larger pool of covered individuals — if not universal coverage, something much closer to it).

The delay stemmed largely from a measure that that would expand certain benefits for displaced American workers; Republicans who do not like this component have more or less agreed to accept it in order to override the opposition of Democrats who have been concerned about the loss of American jobs to foreign competition.

The budget office figures go only to 2010, but they show that the debt would be reduced to $941 billion by that point if all of the Social Security surpluses are used for debt reduction, as both parties have more or less agreed to do.

"Chris Clark had more or less agreed to come here but it was difficult for him because his wife had just moved to Aberdeen, the most northerly club, from the most southern and western in the UK in Plymouth," he said.

"I never really expected John Malkovich to even read the thing, much less agree to be in it.

Banks have dragged their feet in modifying first mortgages, much less agreeing to forgive part of the principal on homes that are underwater.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Chairman Yasir Arafat of the Palestinian Authority, the men between whom Mr. Powell is preparing to mediate, so loathe each other that he will be hard-pressed to get them to talk directly, much less agree to a cease-fire or resumption of substantive political negotiations.

The industry, of course, begs to differ and doesn't want to reveal such information on its products, much less agree to warning labels.

Instead of discrete lives with individual purposes, each precious and none to be conscripted for a cause, these honored dead became slogans or "platforms" for ideas to which they did not subscribe, much less agree to sacrifice their lives.

MI5 reported a fraught meeting at the communist party headquarters where Lessing agreed to sign a letter exposing "the grave crimes and abuses of the USSR and the recent revolt of workers and intellectuals against the pseudo Communist bureaucracies and police systems".