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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61 The pact, which was negotiated during the Bush presidency, has been stalled since 1993.
62 At the moment they don't know whether this was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact.
63 The Pact would provide for the withdrawal of Soviet forces following the formation of a coalition government in Kabul.
64 The pact is to last three years and includes an option to extend.
65 So they joined in a suicide pact which would rid them for ever of parental domination.
66 And most of the former Warsaw Pact nations have trouble deciding if they want either free elections or free markets.
67 With the stability pact in place, the number of shock absorbers is diminishing.
68 The auto maker said the pact will permit better matching of output and demand. Sentencedict.com
69 The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting.
70 The Pact did not provide any machinery for enforcement: it merely pledged the nations to outlaw war.
71 The pact is widely seen as one of the environmental fruits of glasnost in the Soviet Union.
72 But before they gave up their freedom they made a solemn pact to see them through possible months in jail.
73 Whichever way, the devil will seal the pact for the usual price of his new agent's soul.
74 In making a pact with this devil, Lancaster County made a Faustian bargain.
75 The rights advocates claim the pact proves the market people were wrong all along.
76 The pact calls for the continued employment of economic sanctions.
77 The most recent and comprehensive of these relationships was the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-79.
78 The pact calls for the destruction of all stockpiles within four years of ratification and the clearance of minefields within 10 years.
79 Eventually 62 states adhered to the pact.
80 They signed a nonaggression pact.
81 The pact was unintelligent for another reason.
82 The two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact.
83 This is a pact between us.
84 It was a pact made in fun long ago.
85 The DPP portrays the pact as a Trojan horse.
86 You could have,for example,some sort of suicide pact.
87 Nevertheless, Beijing is acting with extreme caution even as North Korea threatens to 'totally freeze' relations with South Korea and pull out of a nonaggression pact.
88 But strong political opposition to the pact has reduced Mr. Singh's government to a minority, prompting him to seek a confidence vote in a two-day session of parliament, starting Monday.
89 But the plans for that system also include advanced land-based versions, some of which would be based in former Warsaw Pact countries, including Poland and Romania.
90 In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia.