While the Slovenes have said no to the Americans, probably forfeiting $4m in US aid, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia are now being pressed to join the 39 other countries worldwide with which Washington has sealed bilateral pacts granting Americans immunity from war crimes.
BY TRADITION, Muslim leaders seal pacts by bowing together in prayer, side by side.
A phone call Saturday between President Bush and Prime Minister John Howard sealed the pact.
Blair sealed his pact with Rupert Murdoch by "paying a visit to the court of the sun king".
THE war on those stashing undisclosed money offshore intensified this week when 47 countries, including the Group of 20 and some prominent tax havens, sealed a pact that will shake up the sharing of tax information.
Mr. Rauti recently sealed a pact with Mr. Berlusconi that would virtually assure Fiamma Tricolore that it would hold on to that seat in these elections, for both houses of Parliament.
The patriotic opening ceremony of this summer's Olympics sealed the pact between Buckingham Palace and showbusiness when the current Bond, Daniel Craig, was accompanied on a mission by the Queen, concluding with a parachute jump into the Olympic Stadium.
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the veteran interior minister, adds the jobs of deputy prime minister and government spokesman to his portfolio.A few days earlier Mr Zapatero had sealed a pact with the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) to ensure the passage of his minority government's budget.
Mr Obama's ambitious free-trade agenda is focused on sealing both pacts before leaving office – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union, TTIP, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership that would span 12 nations in this hemisphere including Japan, Malaysia and Australia.
Bring out a nicely braised roast, a hot loaf of bread and a slice of, oh, lemon chess pie, and rifts can be healed, pacts sealed, loves revealed.
Kane's big smile at the rally seals the pact between him and us.
