1.   Agreement on philosophical issues does not risk endless postponement, as does agreement in the special sciences.

2.   In most liberal democratic countries there is some measure of agreement in the news media on political facts.

3.   The agreement in principle was expected to be signed at the Washington summit.

4.   The franchiser tried to keep the spat out of court by enforcing an arbitration agreement in the franchise contract.

5.   Wells Fargo has challenged that provision of the First Bank merger agreement in court.

6.   Western diplomats helped draw up the peace agreement in Cambodia.

7.   Negotiators from the three countries finalized the agreement in August.

8.   Fears grew that the failure to resolve the agricultural dispute would threaten agreement in other areas and possibly jeopardize the talks as a whole.