Anglo-Russian Entente, (1907) pact in which Britain and Russia settled their colonial disputes in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.
The negotiations for this exchange seem to have involved a secret pact in which Gretl and Hermine sided with Nazi officials against Paul.
He promised speedy reforms of tax, energy, television and education and secured a wide-ranging pact in which all three main parties pledged to implement them.
Two of them have secretly forged a suicide pact in which they plan to jump off a rollercoaster at the end of the day.
One idea that has been gaining favor among economics specialists is a pact in which holders of Greek bonds would agree to be paid back more slowly to avoid greater losses if Greece defaulted.
As Roger Lowenstein, a journalist, recounts in his book "While America Aged", there has been a "devil's pact" in which politicians granted benefits to unions without funding those promises properly.A classic illustration comes from San Diego, California.
At Bonn, a sticking point is whether there will be a second phase to the Kyoto protocol, the 1997 pact in which developed countries agreed to cut their emissions by about 5% by 2012.
However, Von Kleist could never escape his overwhelming depression: he killed himself at the age of 34, as part of a suicide pact in which he shot dead his terminally ill lover, Henriette Vogel.
I cite Singapore as the model for a pact in which private freedoms, notably the freedom to earn and spend money, appear prized far more highly than public freedoms such as free expression.
Since Renzi rose to power following a party coup last year, he and Berlusconi have been engaged in a fragile pact in which Berlusconi agreed to support the prime minister's reform agenda even though he heads the opposition party.
