Synonym: agreement, alliance, bargain, contract, treaty, understanding. Similar words: impact, compact, pack, pace, space, pacify, pack up, package. Meaning: [pækt] n. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
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31 On Feb. 19, Aoun and Geaga agreed a six-point pact to end the fighting.
32 Over the past several weeks, I have broken the unspoken pact, without explanation.
33 Detectives are investigating whether it was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact.
34 The pact details how the $ 81 million facility will be managed and operated.
35 On May 21 Haqqani announced that Masud and Hekmatyar had agreed upon, but not signed, a five-point peace pact.
36 It's unclear how or when the mediator would react if a new pact isn't reached today.
37 Within a few months, and certainly in the perspective of historic events, the terms of the Pact lost their significance.
38 He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance.
39 That would be much more likely if Mr Gorbachev could reduce his conventional forces and weaponry in the Warsaw Pact.
40 Following Bartlett's victory at Bridgewater[sentencedict.com], he launched a grass roots campaign for an electoral pact with Liberals and Communists.
41 One problem remained to be settled, which was the working out of the electoral pact.
42 The waste-management company also entered into a pact to acquire other Wastemasters assets for about $ 15. 8 million.
43 The crucial factor is likely to be how much Moscow continues to value the Warsaw Pact as a military buffer.
44 Wednesday, the pact hit a snag Thursday morning over several smaller issues.
45 It would change the military strategies of the former Warsaw Pact countries and lead to troop reductions.
46 But two months ago their pact broke down, and fresh elections are to be held on October 21.
47 The city could take back the 110 additional diplomat parking spots it created under the pact, Mastro said.
48 The commission also ordered a media campaign to raise awareness of the peace pact.
49 The former Shah's advocacy of a collective security pact was a further black mark against the Gulf scheme.
50 The prisoners can each be sure of benefiting if they have a previously agreed pact never to confess, whatever the circumstances.
51 A dramatic example of this is the publicity given to the secret annexes to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
52 Officials at IBM and Apple declined to comment on a possible pact between the two personal computer makers.
53 The pact was ostensibly motivated by a desire to eradicate political dynasties and corruption in favour of political renovation and democratic change.
54 The pact they had silently concluded after Maurice's death stood exposed as a sham.
55 At that time, all Andean Pact countries are expected to adopt zero customs duties on all imports from other members.
56 In the summer, the two sides took the unprecedented step in the Warsaw Pact of recalling their two ambassadors.
57 But, he said, it could not be a two-way pact.
58 C., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged that the pact had major shortcomings in just those areas.
59 Mexico's Defense Ministry this month signed a pact that allows Mexican troops to train at American bases.
60 Lowestoft is a town twinned with nowhere, although it is considering a suicide pact with Basildon.