Sentence examples for pact down from inspiring English sources

And some critics questioned Mr. Obama's willingness as commander in chief to resist Russian pressure to drop missile defense to preserve the pact down the road.

When people get very different deals on these things, the pact breaks down.

I signed the pact, dropping down the face with speed and legs thrusting toward the shallow then up and over and maneuvering for the crest, roller-coasting the left, and cutting back before the crash, exhilarated, turning back to flat waters to line up again, breathing deeply, washed in Poseidon's grace.

What was intended to be a global growth pact quickly bogged down in "currency wars".

Gleeful residents of the Baltic states and the Kremlin's old Warsaw Pact satellites pulled down his statue when Communism fell.

What Meyers explains as a sado­masochistic pact, Martin puts down to Thrale's role as "therapist" for Johnson's fear of insanity.

The European Union already has a strict rule book, called the Stability and Growth Pact, which lays down a process to keep budget deficits within strict limits and even has penalties for not doing so.

A fashion roster packed with designers who are strong minded to the point of perversity seemed to have made a pact to dial down, to take a break from making women jump through hoops.

South African-mediated talks between ZANU-PF, the party of President Robert Mugabe, and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by the prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, which are aimed at shoring up their shaky power-sharing pact, have broken down, maybe irretrievably.

The warning to Portugal underlined the need to re-examine the Stability and Growth Pact, which lays down rules for euro-zone membership, to try to prevent a repeat of the crisis that has engulfed Greece and threatened the euro, Mr. Rehn said.

Yet the decision by France and Germany to rip up the stability pact that laid down fiscal rules for euro members has led to the raising, in some surprising quarters, of concerns about the long-term future of the currency.One example is a paper written by Joachim Fels, chief European economist at Morgan Stanley, an American investment bank, that questions the euro's long-term viability.