Sentence examples for past pacts from inspiring English sources

Like TPP, these past pacts include investment rules that actually incentivize the offshoring of American jobs.

That is an especially grim finding, given past pacts like NAFTA led to major increases in our trade deficit because imports greatly outgrew exports, but at least exports did not shrink.

It's shocking but not unprecedented -- dozens of environmental laws and regulations have been challenged under past trade pacts with similar rules, like NAFTA.

Given past trade pacts have resulted in significant American job loss, the small bloc of Democratic Senators willing to support Fast Track authority insisted the 2015 bill include an extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).

(While billions have been paid to foreign investors under this regime, so far we have dodged the bullet because past U.S. pacts have been with developing nations with few investors here).

And the corporations trying to sneak these trade pacts past any kind of oversight must pay attention.

Intensified emphasis on these issues - and drawing a sharp distinction against those who have supported past job-killing pacts - is proving to be a lifeline in some races.

"This draft chapter falls flat on every single one of our issues - oceans, fish, wildlife, and forest protections - and in fact, rolls back on the progress made in past free trade pacts".

There have been occasional pacts in the past on limiting fund-raising.

[A8.] United States officials, frustrated with the prospect of a weakened hemispheric trade agreement, said they would focus on bilateral pacts to get past differences with Brazil.

In a debate in September, Dr. Dean said he had supported trade pacts in the past because "we benefited in Vermont from trade".