(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.
Settler
Definition:
(n.) One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
(n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
(n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
(n.) A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
(2) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(3) The Civil Administration, the Israeli governing body in the West Bank, said the settlers had failed to obtain the required permit to purchase property in the occupied territory, and were therefore ordered to evacuate the house.
(4) The bill would legalise nearly 4,000 settler homes built on private Palestinian land, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now.
(5) Settler youths are rarely held in detention before trial and have access to superior legal representation.
(6) Only the Abu Aishes and another family remain on his street, alongside new settler apartment blocks and portable buildings.
(7) Since the mid-90s, settlers have established dozens of outposts to prevent the transfer of land to the Palestinians.
(8) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(9) Humanitarian settlers also benefit the wider community through developing and maintaining economic linkages with their origin countries.
(10) The ascendancy from the 70s onwards of the religious settler movement in Israel , and the rise of Hamas and other overtly Islamist Palestinian movements in the late 80s, were clear signs not only of the weakening of secular forces in both societies, but that the language of the conflict was returning to its roots.
(11) Another historian, David Anderson , professor of African politics at Oxford, said the files showed that one European settler, Jack Hopcraft, painstakingly documented the abuses perpetrated against his employees and that colonial officials chose to ignore him.
(12) For more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in more than 200 locations in the West Bank, the Israeli military is obliged to intervene if there is retaliatory Palestinian violence.
(13) Settlers accepted the deal at a vote in Amona’s synagogue on Sunday.
(14) Assam, a tea-growing Indian state that borders Bhutan and Bangladesh, has a long history of often violent land disputes between the indigenous Bodo tribes, Muslim settlers and the Adivasi community.
(15) The Israeli authorities are accused of structuring their security operations to minimise the cost to the settlers of the campaign of harassment, intimidation and violence.
(16) The defence minister, Ehud Barak, should resign, says David Ha'ivri of the Shomron Liaison Office, a regional settlers' body.
(17) In a boost to the settlers, Netanyahu demanded the eviction be delayed to allow an investigation, for which no timeframe was given.
(18) Cooke reflects that: "When Gove talks about school discipline, he is talking to Settlers.
(19) Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, has had little to show his people: with more than 300,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the continued expansion of settlements, there are growing doubts over the viability of a two-state solution.
(20) Referring to the rise in tensions, Barghouti writes: “The escalation did not start with the killing of two Israeli settlers,” referring to the shooting of a husband and wife in front of their children.