Sentence examples for modest agreements from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Lavrov announced modest agreements on noncontentious issues and sought to portray them as examples of what Mr. Lavrov called "constructive cooperation".

Since late 2002, the governments of India and Pakistan have reached a number of modest agreements, such as the establishment of bus service between the two countries.

And while, during Modi's upcoming visit, the two leaders will doubtless try to paper over the cracks with rather modest agreements on economic co-operation, more tensions are arising all the time.

Trading economic sanctions for nuclear concessions may offer modest agreements, but a fundamental resolution of this issue may require a more imaginative re-conceptualization of the existing diplomatic paradigm.

A clash between smaller and larger member nations over the composition of the European Commission, the Brussels-based policy-making body, threatened to prevent even the modest agreements reached at Nice.

The summit sought to make progress on a new ASEAN human-rights body but the Burmese said it must not have powers to monitor or investigate abuses only a toothless one would do.Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, reminded ASEAN leaders that they had, in 41 years of summitry, honoured only 30% of the fairly modest agreements they had signed.

The new compromise appears devised to eke out a modest agreement on principles that each country would adhere to voluntarily.

In the end, he had to be satisfied with another parallel and more modest agreement on growth.

The New Start treaty, on the other hand, was never meant to be more than a relatively modest agreement.

In Congress, even a more modest agreement with the Iraqis over the American military presence still faces opposition.

Mr. Cantor, Democratic officials said, presented a Republican proposal for a more modest agreement that drew heavily on earlier negotiations steered by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.