Sentence examples for struck a pact from inspiring English sources

Outside the operating room, Mr. Marx and Mr. Lewis struck a pact.

To overcome a dozen years of legislative gridlock, he struck a "Pact for Mexico" with the opposition.

Bank of America and Morgan Stanley also struck a pact with the Justice Department to settle claims they foreclosed on 178 military members between 2006 and 2009.

Two of Europe's leading far-right populists struck a pact on Wednesdayto build a continental alliance to wreck the European parliament from within, and slay "the monster in Brussels".

Joel Sybrowsky, 32, a telecommunications consultant from Provo, Utah, said that when he was flying from Salt Lake to Toronto the other day, he introduced himself to his seatmate and struck a pact before the plane left the ground.

Page D1 Arts IRELAND GETS ITS OWN ACADEMY FOR ACTORS Danielle Ryan of the Ryan family, one of the wealthiest in Ireland, used millions of euros from her father's will, and struck a pact -- relatively unusual for Ireland -- to mix private and public monies to create the new National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin.

The companies completed their agreement late Sunday night after G.M. had come within hours of striking a pact with the News Corporation on Saturday afternoon.

Let's strike a pact - we'll call it a coalition - you send me little gifts: emails, jokes, reggae music, whatever, and I'll give you the inside story and a bit of dirt on Messrs Blair and Hague.

The current budget standoff offers House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) a historic opportunity: to become the first-ever bipartisan speaker, by striking a pact with House Democrats to switch his governing tactics as long as they support his right to lead the House.

The normally wily Mr Magalhaes had miscalculated: by attacking Mr Barbalho so fiercely he managed to unite the faction-ridden PMDB behind his candidacy, and also prompted it to strike a pact with the PSDB in which it supported Mr Barbalho in return for PMDB backing for Mr Neves.Given the allegations against Mr Barbalho, Mr Cardoso is bound to be uneasy at seeing him running the Senate.

That will likely put some pressure on DirecTV to strike a pact with the channel or risk losing subscribers as those SEC fans are pretty fanatical.