(n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
(n.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
(n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
(n.) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(4) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
(5) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(6) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
(7) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(8) Cytochemical studies on renal peroxisomes were in agreement with these biochemical findings.
(9) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(10) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(11) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(12) In agreement with the data in the literature, melanocytes incubated with IFN-gamma acquire HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens.
(13) These calculated values are compared with observed values and implications of the agreement are discussed.
(14) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(15) These data were in agreement with those from a previous comparative study which had a very different research design and a somewhat different type of schizophrenic population.
(16) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(17) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(18) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
(19) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
(20) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
Contravention
Definition:
(n.) The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strategic intervention, through control of the production line, in order to correct the contraventions evident in the GMP programme, is the first necessity in guaranteeing microbiological quality.
(2) There is no suggestion that any of the FTSE 100 firms have engaged in practices in contravention of tax laws.
(3) Despite suffering many years of a brutal occupation, which includes the inhuman treatment of Palestinian children, locked up in Israeli jails in contravention of international human rights conventions, the Palestinians we meet have maintained their dignity and humanity.
(4) It also allows the corrections department to keep secret the identity of doctors who collaborate with executions by administering lethal injections in contravention of their ethical code.
(5) Without revealing his identity, in contravention of the Wikipedia code of conduct, Shapps justified his edits as the removal of politically slanted or unreferenced "info" and by claiming "content must be verifiable".
(6) Baird said he would be urgently auditing these donations: “I have told the party’s new state director, as a matter of urgency, to investigate the allegations made at ICAC and respond to them promptly – including by dealing with any payments that have been made to the party in contravention of the law,” Baird said.
(7) Allowing him to speak on campus could easily occasion grave offence to Muslim students, and could thereby be argued by the extremists in the home office to be a contravention of the directive to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
(8) There is no evidence at this point of time that would indicate a contravention of national environment law has occurred.
(9) It is certainly Standard Chartered ducking and weaving, but at the end of the day they are the ones advising Adani on the biggest coal mine in the world.” It was possible, he said, that Adani Mining had received the Standard Chartered loan via an internal transfer from another Adani subsidiary: “That would be a very polite way of putting it.” Standard Chartered maintained that it was not in contravention of its lending policies, which state that it will “restrict the provision of financial services” to clients in the fossil fuel power generation sector who would have a significant impact on Unesco world heritage sites or protected wetlands.
(10) In summary these concerns are that Transfield’s statement … fails to disclose that causing or contributing to human rights abuses may give rise to individual liability for Transfield directors, officers and employees, legal, financial and reputational risks for Transfield and contravention of the policy and practice commitments of many of Transfield’s investors, financiers and clients,” the NBIA response said.
(11) The KPMG report says a key clause in most third-party ownership contracts “authorises the investor to promote the definitive transfer of the player through the corresponding Fifa agents” – in direct contravention of Fifa regulations.
(12) … We do not feel it would appropriate for the police service to voluntarily act in contravention of legislation."
(13) For the umpteenth time, Yarl's Wood recently crashed into the news thanks to a bungled deportation of a Sudanese family, in contravention of a ministerial intervention, and a hunger strike and sit-in allegedly met with a brutal response by staff.
(14) Its statement said: "He was arrested outside London on suspicion of corruption allegations in contravention of section one of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906."
(15) Blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, are defined by the UN as gems that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognised governments, and are used to fund military action against those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the UN security council.
(16) However, a spokesman for BASW, which has 14,000 members across the UK, told Guardian Social Care Network: "We profoundly regret yet another example of the publicly-funded college setting itself up in opposition to an independent, social worker led-professional association in contravention of the agreement which it signed with BASW less than five months ago.
(17) It is concluded continuous monitoring of the sex distribution should be undertaken as contravention of the United Nations' Convention concerning abolition of all forms of discrimination against women may possibly occur.
(18) Critics have claimed the law is in direct contravention of recommendations from the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
(19) Five Russian cinema chains have been fined a total of more than 4m rubles (£68,000) for showing Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street in apparent contravention of laws banning the promotion of illegal drugs.
(20) To exercise such a power where people are owed protection and particularly where they have passed security and character checks may be a contravention of their right to a permanent protection visa under the law.” McDuff said the government was using national interest to pursue a political aim of providing only temporary protection to refugees.