It was as though he had made a pact with the devil himself, but it was not yet time to pay the price.

Turkey had a non-aggression pact with Bulgaria.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

As a continuing part of the social pact, and even more as the result of a fierce union-government battle, President Callejas announced in 1991 a 27. 8 percent increase over a minimum wage that the government had earlier agreed upon.

In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: ( 1 ) a mutual assistance / aid pact and ( 2 ) a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact.

But when the Chinese made it clear that they had no interest in such an alliance ( especially given that the Japanese regarded Chinese adhesion to the proposed pact as way of subordinating China to Japan ), both Neurath and War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg persuaded Hitler to shelve the proposed treaty lest it damage Germany's good relations with China.

By that date, the following nations had deposited instruments of definitive adherence to the pact: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

Germany and the Soviet Union entered an intricate trade pact on February 11, 1940, that was over four times larger than the one the two countries had signed in August 1939.

While Stalin had little faith in Japan's commitment to neutrality, he felt that the pact was important for its political symbolism, to reinforce a public affection for Germany.

As a result of the pact, Germany and the Soviet Union had reasonably strong diplomatic relations and an important economic relationship.

Rome had no legal protection pact with any tribe south of the Ebro River.

He was also reputed to have had a pact with a female demon called Meridiana, who had appeared after he had been rejected by his earthly love, and with whose help he managed to ascend to the papal throne ( another legend tells that he won the papacy playing dice with the Devil ).

Antiochus III the Great and Philip V of Macedon had made a pact to divide Egypt's overseas possessions.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

However, when they learned that their compatriots had given up the fight, they lost confidence ; the end result was that they concluded a peace pact that greatly restricted the city's powers and burdened the city with serious penalties and reparations payments.

Unreported at the time, Crash had overdosed on China white heroin in a suicide pact with close friend Casey Cola, who ended up surviving.

The reality was that a " Warsaw "- type pact had been in existence since 1945, when Soviet forces initially occupied Eastern Europe, and maintained there after the war.

King Harald Hardrada of Norway also had a claim to the throne as the uncle and heir of King Magnus I, who had made a pact with Harthacnut in about 1040 that if either Magnus or Harthacnut died without heirs, the other would succeed.

Throughout this time, it was increasingly believed that Christianity was engaged in an apocalyptic battle against the Devil and his secret army of witches, who had entered into a diabolical pact.

One of the first acts of his pontificate was to declare the pact to have been illegal and null.

In a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into occupy areas of the Roman Empire that had been depopulated by the plague.

This secret pact, later exposed, failed because the war with Turkey took too long, by which time the Great Elector had made treaties with France, the Swedes had been repelled, and by increased opposition from the Commonwealth's magnates, with many of them on the Great Elector's side.

Callaghan's time as Prime Minister was dominated by the troubles in running a Government with a minority in the House of Commons: he was forced to make deals with minor parties in order to survive – including the Lib-Lab pact, and he had been forced to accept referendums on devolution in Scotland and Wales ( the former went in favour but did not reach the required majority, and the latter went heavily against ).

What had previously been a belief that some people possessed supernatural abilities ( which were sometimes used to protect the people ) now became a sign of a pact between the people with supernatural abilities and the devil.

At the end of that day, having been restored to youth and helped by Mephisto to steal a beautiful woman from her wedding feast, Faust is sufficiently tempted that he agrees to extend the pact for eternity.

While a written pact has not been found by either the church or the PTC, even if a written pact were to be found, the Turnpike is forbidden by federal regulations to replace the steps in any case due to safety concerns.

The pact had been preceded by attempts by Philip IV of France to conquer the Duchy of Burgundy and the County of Flanders.

On the 4th of May, the American ships opened fire against the 100 men who, according to the pact had been left on Corregidor and demanded the garrison forces be reduced to 25 men.

Although the Hitler-Stalin pact had served Germany's interests well, both strategically and economically, his whole career had been based on anti-communism and the belief that " Jewish Bolshevism " was main threat to Germany and the Aryan race.

Ashdown had long been on his party's social democratic wing, supporting the 1977 Lib-Lab pact, and the SDP – Liberal Alliance.

Brown speculated that this may have referred to a suicide pact with von Greim, who may well have been Reitsch's lover: they had both been given cyanide pills by Hitler while in the bunker and Reitsch was known still to have hers.

In March 1977, he led the Liberals into the " Lib-Lab pact " by which they agreed to keep the Labour government, whose narrow majority since the general election in October 1974 had been gradually eroded and left them as minority government, in power in return for a degree of prior consultation on policy.

The 1518 Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact between major European powers, to help resist the Ottoman expansion into southeastern Europe, had just been signed.

Several German art experts have attempted to refute all the claims made by Hawass, pointing to the 1924 document discussing the pact between Borchardt and the Egyptian authorities, though, as discussed earlier, Borchardt has been accused of foul play in the deal.

The PRC had been observing the Hong Kong pact and using " Zhonghua Taipei " in stipulated areas ever since, but on other occasions, the version of " Zhongguo Taipei " was still in use following past practice, especially in official media references.

In 1935 a pact initiated by Roerich was signed by the United States and Latin American nations, agreeing that " historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions " should be protected both in times of peace and war.

Later, in November 1964, Leoni initiated conversations with leaders of the involved parties to rescue the spirit of the pact.

In 1676, Legnica passed to direct Habsburg rule after the death of the last Silesian Piast duke, Georg Wilhelm ( son of Duke Christian of Brieg ), despite the earlier inheritance pact by Brandenburg and Silesia, by which it was to go to Brandenburg.

In their origins, these usages derived from pagus, " province, countryside ", cognate to Greek πάγος " rocky hill ", and, even earlier, " something stuck in the ground ", as a landmark: the Proto-Indo-European root * pag-means " fixed " and is also the source of the words page, pale ( stake ), and pole, as well as pact and peace.

The following day, November 9, a council, headed by archbishop Trolle, sentenced the proscribed to death for being heretics ; the main point of accusation was their having united in a pact to depose Trolle a few years earlier.

DeCicco and Gravano, however, also made a secret pact to kill Gotti and take over the family as boss and underboss, respectively, if they were unhappy with Gotti's leadership after one year.

At the age of 69, he and 66 year old Laura died together in a suicide pact.

Therefore Sophia sought revenge, and a secret pact was made between the dowager empress and the general Justinian, whom Tiberius had replaced the year before.

However, concerns by the German Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath and War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg that the pact might damage Chinese-German relations plus political disarray in Tokyo following the failed military coup of February 26, 1936 led to the Pact's being shelved for a year.

Rudolf is reported to have proposed a similar suicide pact to the twenty-four year old Kaspar a month prior to his death at Mayerling, which she rejected, presuming it to be a joke.

He had no choice but to sign a nonaggression pact with Berlin the following year.

That year, it lost to Soviet Union Bessarabia, as provided for by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but additionally lost to Soviet Union also Northern Bukovina and the Herţa region which were not mentioned in the pact, as well as the considerable territory of Northern Transylvania to Hungary, due to the Second Vienna Award, and the " Cadrilater " to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Craiova.

Nearly a year later in January 2009, Wal-Mart informed Cott it was terminating a 10-year-old pact under which Cott had been supplying the company with store-branded soft drinks.

They embraced a bohemian and decadent lifestyle, living off of Harry's trust fund of US $ 12, 000 a year ( or about $ in today's dollars ), had an open marriage with numerous ongoing affairs, a suicide pact, frequent drug use, wild parties, and long trips abroad.

On April 5, 1945 the Soviet Union denounced the pact, informing the Japanese government that " in accordance with Article Three of the above mentioned pact, which envisaged the right of denunciation one year before the lapse of the five year period of operation of the pact, the Soviet Government hereby makes known to the Government of Japan its wish to denounce the pact of April 13, 1941.

In 1901, in light of this disillusionment, they made a pact to commit suicide together if they could not discover some deeper meaning to life within a year.

That same year, he played Gordon Brown in Peter Morgan's single drama The Deal ( Stephen Frears, 2003 ), about a pact made between Brown and Tony Blair ( Michael Sheen ) in 1994.

The alliance went through two stages: early in the year, the PCD signed an electoral pact with Averescu's grouping — the People League's Argetoianu, who led the talks, later indicated that he had sabotaged all possibility of an actual merger, believing it to be detrimental to his grouping ; in autumn, the newly-returned Ionescu met with the general to discuss a project for increased cooperation.

In 1871 Mazzini founded the Patto di fratellanza fra le società operaie (" brotherhood pact of the workers ' societies "); however, Mazzini's death the following year and internationalism put the Republicans in a difficult position.

Tabu Records had a short-lived distribution pact with RCA, which lasted a year before moving to CBS Records.

On the following year, though, the Dragonarmies broke the pact, and the Red, Blue, and Green Dragonarmies began the invasion of Silvanesti.