Sentence examples for winning agreement from inspiring English sources

Yet winning agreement to abolish the death penalty proved more difficult than stamping out slavery.

But the United States may face further hurdles in winning agreement.

In 1964 the then home secretary, Henry Brooke, declined to "proceed with legislation … at the moment" because of the challenge in winning agreement with other realms.

Although the UDHR and the Geneva Conventions were signed some 50 years ago, most of the period since has been spent in the time-consuming, cumbersome business of formulating and winning agreement for new international laws from scores of countries.

That underlines the likely political difficulties in winning agreement from national governments on the proposals, which also include coordinating corporate tax rules, standardizing public procurement procedures and establishing a unitary patent across the European Union.

But they succeeded in winning agreement for a separate vote on that issue next week -- Senate Democrats are sure to defeat it -- and in keeping in the budget deal a provision that would restrict abortion financing in Washington.

The union group's strategy drew plaudits from environmentalists when the group was winning agreements from developers to cut pollution from fossil fuel power plants.

They have won agreement from some local cartage companies.

Having finally won agreement from its lenders last week, Yell has launched a £660m cash call.

Cazeneuve said France had won agreement on the key points it wanted.

I express opinions not to win agreement, but to provoke debate.