The cabinet has been derelict in accepting Blair's gun-to-the-head timetable; the more adamantly they all repeat the mantra - as they do even off the record - the more it looks like a mutual pact on the political necessity to park their brains on this one.
LifeSharers is based on a mutual pact: You promise that when you die you will give first dibs on your organs to the LifeSharers member who then ranks highest on the federal waiting list, letting the organs go to someone else only if no member can use them.
In the end, all the key players had so much to lose (and very little to win) that the Leaders' Debate quickly turned into a series of ticked boxes, as the politicos deliberately tried not to test each other's boundaries, instead engaging in some kind of tacit mutual pact to stick to their individual scripts.
In the end, all the key players had so much to lose (and very little to win) that the Leaders Debate quickly turned into a series of ticked boxes, as the politicos deliberately tried not to test each other's boundaries, instead engaging in some kind of tacit mutual pact to stick to their individual scripts.
On the military front, the United States and Japan are updating the terms of their mutual defense pact and hope to do so in ways that will give Japan's military more latitude to participate in joint operations.
Though Ramses claimed a great victory, the result was probably indecisive, and 16 years later, under Hattusilis III (c. 1275 c. 1250 bce), a peace treaty, mutual defense pact, and dynastic marriage were concluded between the Hittites and the Egyptians.
Luxembourg, like other E.U. countries, has mutual assistance pacts and other legal mechanisms that permit companies like Microsoft to share information with foreign law enforcement agencies in continuing investigations.
Nixon and Brezhnev met in Yalta, where they discussed a proposed mutual defense pact, détente, and MIRVs.
He told me that shortly before the Reich Foreign Minister had reported to the Fuehrer that Britain had concluded a pact-a mutual assistance pact-with Poland, and for that reason he could expect British intervention in the war with Poland.
If Mr. McCain and Mr. Romney have been skirmishing, Mr. McCain and Mr. Giuliani have something between a nonaggression pact and a mutual admiration society going.
Bayrakdar subsequently became grand vizier and convened (1808) a conference of aʿyān and derebeys ("valley lords," hereditary and virtually independent feudatories in Anatolia) in Istanbul, where they and representatives of Mahmud II signed a mutual assistance pact that recognized and confirmed their status.
