Sentence examples for substantive agreement from inspiring English sources

The chance of substantive agreement in Seoul on the rebalancing of global trade just fell further.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may return to Israel before the conference to push for a more substantive agreement.

Although the Madrid talks themselves failed to achieve a substantive agreement, they were valuable in paving the way for additional negotiations.

The summit that was supposed to solve this part of the equation ended with a disappointing outcome in Addis Ababa last July, and this week the follow-up negotiations produced a new low as governments failed to reach any substantive agreement.

December 18 A two-week international conference on global warming in Buenos Aires, Arg., concludes with an agreement to hold an informal workshop in 2005 to discuss the matter; the U.S. is accused of foot dragging and preventing a more substantive agreement.

I am glad to see the prospect of a bipartisan agreement on student loans (and not just because I am a professor — the process by which the House and President Obama reached substantive agreement and then brought along the Senate suggests the possibility of similar progress on other economic issues).

The Geneva summit marginally reduced tensions but led to no substantive agreements.

The negotiation of substantive agreements between the dominion and the aboriginal nations did not end with the Numbered Treaties.

For a presidential meeting that is intended not so much for substantive agreements as for relationship-building between Mr. Obama and Mr. Xi, Mrs. Obama's absence will rule out some extra dollops of personal diplomacy.

Three special sessions of the General Assembly have been organized on disarmament, and, though the General Assembly sessions have produced little in the way of substantive agreements, they have served to focus public attention on the issue.

But no matter how long the list of joint projects, technical dialogues and substantive agreements, there is a nagging sense that until a major new initiative is found, charges of drift and divergence – the "widespread" impression that "relations are on a plateau, if not in the doldrums," as a former Indian ambassador to the United States observed on Thursday – will dog the relationship.