Sentence examples for previous pacts from inspiring English sources

The previous pacts expired in late April.

Opponents assailed China's human rights records and Beijing's dubious record on previous pacts on matters ranging from textiles to intellectual property.

The union fell short in its attempt to settle all the contracts at once by the expiration of the previous pacts on Sunday night.

He did sign it the next day, but the apparent slight dampened hopes that the agreement would differ from previous pacts, which had been broken repeatedly.

But he emphasized that any deals must be more resilient than previous pacts in the tribal areas, which fell apart and allowed the militants to regain control.

In the aggressive style he honed as a prosecutor two decades ago, Mr. Kerry unleashed a barrage of criticism against President Bush's nuclear arms treaty with Russia, saying it "neutered" previous pacts and included a "huge contradiction".

The proposed two-year contract is not retroactive to the expiration of the previous pact in June, so the actors have lost an estimated $65 million in compensation in the interim, according to the studios.

The standoff is a heavy burden for the Bush administration, which has failed to slow North Korea's nuclear program since it accused the country of violating a previous pact in 2002 and vowed to take a tougher line than the Clinton administration had.

Details of the contract, released in an e-mail message by the union, showed that workers would receive a 15percentt increase in pay over the four-year life of the contract, whose length is a year longer than their previous pact.

The union's failure to reach a contract for close to a year after the expiration of its previous pact led to a revolt among some members last summer and the ouster of its then-executive director, Doug Allen, who was a close ally of the then-union president, Alan Rosenberg and Ms. Johnson.

The previous pact was set to expire in 2020. .