Sentence examples for smaller agreement from inspiring English sources

Hence his decision, taken after the failure of Boehner's Plan B, to try and get a smaller agreement — one largely confined to raising taxes on at least some rich people and extending unemployment benefits — which won't actually have much impact on the deficit, and which won't even address many of the big spending questions.

The two budget deals last year — the deficit-reduction compromise in August and a smaller agreement before that — called for cutting $1.7 trillion from so-called discretionary spending, which covers the bulk of federal programs whose budgets Congress controls annually, including air-traffic control, the military, education, research and much more.

Obama goes on the say that the GOP has been made various offers, and they've thus far turned them down, and so now Obama has scaled back the deal to a smaller agreement that would involve tax rates and unemployment insurance.

"When you're talking about a major $1.2 trillion or more deficit reduction plan, there are some things you're willing to consider that you might not in the context of a much smaller agreement," said one Democratic negotiator, Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.

These are already proliferating (see chart): just about every one of the WTO's 149 members is a party to a regional trade agreement of some sort.But these smaller agreements are a poor substitute for global progress.

Two smaller agreements have already been signed with Shell and the China National Petroleum Corporation, but today's sale will ignite arguments over whether the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was a "war for oil" that is now to be consummated by western multinationals seizing control of strategic Iraqi reserves.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I suspect it'll be a small agreement.

"If you get a small agreement, that will lead to a downgrade," he told Reuters.

By Wednesday night, some small agreement between the old enemies had emerged.

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Questions, which showed the smallest agreement, were the items from the WHODAS II, PHQ9 and questions 5 and 6 from the MIDAS.