Sentence examples for modern agreements from inspiring English sources
These clauses are routine in modern agreements, giving quick protection to an investor being cheated by a government breaking its treaty obligations.
Modern trade agreements need to reduce friction and establish realistic rules regarding supply chains, including behind-the-border barriers in member economies, to produce real economic benefits (Green and Goodman 2016).
It has also guided drafters of modern multilateral agreements and helped shape the law of international human rights.
And the majority modern international agreements are actually executive orders but contrary to Cotton's assertion, presidents usually decline to overturn deals signed under previous administrations.
The corporate representatives negotiating modern trade agreements see such democratically run governments as "burdensome" and chaotic, introducing "uncertainties" and "interfering" or "meddling" with the corporate order.
As Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith pointed out, the Senate doesn't technically ratify treaties.And the majority of modern international agreements are actually executive orders but contrary to Cotton's assertion, presidents usually decline to overturn deals signed under previous administrations.
The latest leak of documents related to an ongoing trade negotiation, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), provides an opportunity for an honest assessment of the question of how modern trade agreements affect domestic regulation.
Although UNEP oversees many modern-day agreements, it has little power to impose or enforce sanctions on noncomplying parties.
Mullaney said a comprehensive and modern trade agreement should include ISDS: "We think it is important that they protect the regulatory space... and provide protections for investors".
When five of the 10 Nile basin countries signed up to a modern-day agreement that would give them a greater share of the waters, it was greeted in the Egyptian press as a "death sentence".
