voluntary restraint agreement
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the act of approving or accepting something, or the fact of having the same opinion about something:
be in agreement with sb/sthMost of the county's lawmakers are in agreement with administration officials on the proposal.
complete/total/widespread agreementThere is widespread agreement that changes need to be made, but there is disagreement about how it should be conducted.
be in agreement thatAll area superintendents are in agreement that both constitutional reform and tax reform are necessary now.

Examples of agreement

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Subsequently, bilateral and tripartite agreements between these states with regard to number of irrigation projects were also reached during the years 1978-79.
Fear of future defection and exploitation, then, inhibits agreements in the present.
Thus, the multilateral process triggers the regionalization of the negotiation process and hence is complementary to the formation of preferential trading agreements.
Results suggest that international monetary agreements are in fact more durable when parallel agreements are present.
All our efforts have been in line with your thinking on productivity agreements to promote flexibility and interchangeability.
Enforceable wage agreements had long since replaced mutual trust, especially in long-distance navigation, perhaps because the employment relationship could be virtually modern in its anonymity.
Conventions are at least in theory express agreements, voluntarily entered into between the heads of (or other representatives of) states.
The specific constitutional and statutory reforms that the agreements required, however, were to be made by the state and federal congresses respectively.
Contracts and agreements overlap but do not coincide; for example, unilateral contracts and deeds made by one person are not agreements in any normal sense.
In any event, an interconditional account can explain how the making of agreements promotes the purpose.
Despite the failure to achieve lasting agreements, both processes involved an increase in private sector involvement in peace negotiations.
Moreover, there was no time for complicated international agreements and large-scale resettlement plans.
At the moment, role extension schemes are operated under strict delegation agreements where the consultant retains overall responsibility.
Because of this ratification constraint, veto players influence international trade agreements.
Countries are much less likely to sign trade agreements as the number of veto players increases.
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Collocations withagreement

agreement

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absence of agreement
In that position they require a singular mass or plural noun, and, hence, show the same absenceofagreement as the quantifying wat.
arbitration agreement
We do not also seem to accept in terms the proposition that enforcement elsewhere might be contrary to the terms of the arbitrationagreement.
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