(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.
Proviso
Definition:
(n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.
Example Sentences:
(1) No bit of the Human Rights Act, the European convention on human rights or the UN convention against torture has a proviso excluding foreigners with "funny" names or for those with the "wrong" ethnic or religious backgrounds.
(2) "The Conservative position on many aspects of policy therefore appeals more directly to this sense of stopping 'something for nothing'," Duffy said, adding a proviso that the extent of Tory support from the young shouldn't be exaggerated.
(3) The method does not rely upon the expression of the gene sequence of interest; the sole proviso is the availability of an appropriate DNA probe for the chromosomal region or locus of interest.
(4) But there is a proviso: the region's youth bulge came hand-in-hand with high-quality education that prepared a generation for the marketplace – as well as shrewd economic policies that widened that marketplace in the first place.
(5) In this respect, 1716 has prototype vaccine potential with the proviso that a direct extrapolation is being made from mouse to man.
(6) This is subject to a test of what is reasonable, and there is both a “heat of the moment” proviso and an honest mistake exception.
(7) The warning came as EDF unveiled plans to raise prices by 3.9% from January with a proviso – described as blackmail by critics – that the increase would be more if green taxes were not lifted by the government.
(8) the quality of the children is about the same with the proviso that the group is too small to conclude about the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities.
(9) With this proviso, a specific investigation scheme may be recommended.
(10) According to the exchange, Burton said: “As you know, although nominally under the auspices of the Liberal party lawyers’ professional branches, this is not a fundraiser – the cost charged is purely to cover dinner, including our guests and a small contingency for fixed costs in case of a numbers collapse … although of course people will disclose it if they go over the state donation limit.” Heydon’s personal assistant replied on Thursday at 9.23am and kept open the option of his attendance, with a proviso: “He does not wish to answer any questions after his address.
(11) With the proviso that the data may itself prove unreliable, Benetech's research nevertheless offers some useful clues about the makeup of the recorded death toll.
(12) Jakarta should become the priority for Australian prime ministers, he said, adding the proviso "barring things like international conferences that fall due on particular dates".
(13) Even the most accurate description will only be able to represent a part of the reality due to the proviso of only a limited view.
(14) A spokeswoman for Coe said: "Lord Coe did put his name forward on the proviso he wanted to consider if he had the capacity to do the role and if it was something that he wanted to take on.
(15) Cyprus suffered the biggest quarterly decline, shrinking by 0.8% (with the proviso that we only have annual data for Greece , where the economy is 3% smaller than a year ago ).
(16) In our experience, tissue expansion reconstruction offers distinct advantages in a large majority of patients with the proviso that patients are willing to accept the time required for hyperexpansion and the waiting period for deflation.
(17) Warm and generous in an interview that she was more or less arm-twisted into by her boss, Andrew Neil, Michel nevertheless has a proviso in doing so.
(18) The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, gave News Corp the green light to acquire the 60.9% of BSkyB it does not already own on Thursday – subject to a short public consultation that ends midday 8 July – on the proviso that Sky News is spun off as a separate company to allay plurality concerns.
(19) Ministers can simply choose who they feel is best for the job – the only proviso being that the prime minister must approve the appointment.
(20) The usual proviso applies -- US bonds are still being treated as extremely safe.