Sentence examples similar to rest agreements on from inspiring English sources

Although I do not dissent from the reasoning of the judgment, I prefer to rest my agreement on the proposition that if the statute cannot operate as it purports to operate it does not operate at all.

Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations notes that the American-brokered peace agreements with former Sunni insurgents did not rest on one blanket cease-fire but on scores of local agreements.

Second is the financial argument, which rests on the premise that if international agreements on climate change are met, the investments will become worthless.

Make agreements on future communications.

Issues included the specifications in the collective agreement on rest hours after long duty turns, the number of monthly on-call duties and peak-time assistance in the labour ward.

Any deal to retain the current Quakers set-up would rest on the agreement of major creditor Raj Singh.

Relations that rest on mutual agreement about objectives and the roles and responsibilities of each party in the relationship will be more effective.

His hopes rest on the agreement of a future Westminster government, the Treasury, the Bank of England, the EU Commission, 28 other EU countries and many others besides.

An ontologic definition will rest on the agreement that the human brain possesses unique functions and capacities, which are significant to the nature of the human person to the extent that when the individual has irreversibly lost such capacities he or she is dead.

There was wide agreement on this one.

Although it may be that executive agreements entered into pursuant to congressional authorization or treaty obligation also derive preemptive force from the Supremacy Clause, that textual basis for preemption is arguably lacking for executive agreements resting solely on the President's constitutional powers.