1.   Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.

2.   In order to ensure prompt despatch of the Information memorandum to you please fax the signed confidentiality agreement to me on.

3.   Of course I shall honour our agreement to the letter.

4.   Once he had learned that it was proving impossible he reluctantly nodded his agreement to a majority verdict.

5.   The president refused to reveal the terms of the peace agreement to the press.

6.   I faxed a copy of the agreement to each of the investors.

7.   The OAU Secretary-General, Salim Ahmed Salim, was asked to assist all parties in Somalia to reach an agreement to safeguard national unity and ensure peace and stability.

8.   The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement.

9.   According to unconfirmed reports the government had offered talks with Bhutto in return for an agreement to end the agitation.