The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

EMU is established through a currency-related trade pact.

A free-trade area is a result of a free-trade agreement ( a form of trade pact ) between two or more countries.

There are also military ties between Afghanistan and India, which is expected to increase after the October 2011 strategic pact that was signed by President Karzai and Manmohan Singh.

In modern practice, it is an air-cooled medium machine gun, firing rifle cartridges such as the 7. 62 × 51mm NATO, 7. 62 × 54mmR Warsaw pact, or 7. 92x57mm Mauser.

India is one of the only three nations with whom Japan has a security pact, the other two being the United States and Australia.

Nevertheless, the pact is an important multilateral treaty because, in addition to binding the particular nations that signed it, it has also served as one of the legal bases establishing the international norms that the threat or use of military force in contravention of international law, as well as the territorial acquisitions resulting from it, are unlawful.

On 24 August a 10-year non-aggression pact was signed with provisions that included: consultation ; arbitration if either party disagreed ; neutrality if either went to war against a third power ; no membership of a group " which is directly or indirectly aimed at the other.

Upon signing the pact, Molotov tried to reassure the Germans of his good intentions by commenting to journalists that " fascism is a matter of taste ".

The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.

Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.

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.

In its most common sense, the principle refers to private contracts, stressing that contained clauses are law between the parties, and implies that nonfulfilment of respective obligations is a breach of the pact.

The family is second in prestige only to the Al Saud ( the royal family ) with whom they formed a " mutual support pact " and power-sharing arrangement nearly 300 years ago.

The pact, which persists to this day, is based on the Al Saud maintaining the Al ash-Sheikh's authority in religious matters and upholding and propagating Wahhabi doctrine.

Native American casinos located in reservations are not permitted to have slot machines unless the tribe first reaches a pact with the state in which it is located ( per Indian Gaming Regulatory Act ).

* September 21 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.

* A pact of non-aggression and friendship is signed between the Roman Empire, represented by Tiberius, and the German tribe the Cherusci, represented by their King Segimer.

Use of that water belonging to the United States is regulated by the Rio Grande Compact, an interstate pact between Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

Historically, a dhimmi was a person who is protected under Islamic law by a pact contracted between non-Muslims and authorities from their Muslim government: this status was first made available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book ( e. g. Jews and Christians ), but was later extended to include Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Mandeans, Hindus and Buddhists.

Of equal importance is the parallel narrative of a maize hero defeating the deities of Thunder and Lightning and establishing a pact with them.

The pact helped to assure Rome's grain supply, the blockade on Italy is lifted.

An alliance is a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.

Forget the idea that some pact is reached first.

A trade pact ( also known as trade agreement ) is a wide ranging tax, tariff and trade pact that often includes investment guarantees.

When an allied country conquers an enemy state, it will often sever its pact with Israel and progressively reduce relations with an aggressive stance ( with the neighboring countries doing this until war is declared on Israel ).

But already during the preceding century, influent western merchants such as Orlando, often in pact with local warlords such as Cennetoğlu, a brigand ( sometimes cited as one of the first in line in western Anatolia's long tradition of efes to come ) who in the 1620s had assembled a vast company of disbanded Ottoman soldiers and renegades and established control over much of the fertile land around Manisa, had triggered a movement of more commercially sensitive Greek and Jewish populations towards the port city.

A suicide pact negotiated over the internet, often between complete strangers, is an Internet suicide.

After that and a deep conversation on how happy they are in life, they make another pact to visit more often.

Under the pact, Finland was obliged to resist armed attacks by " Germany or its allies " ( in reality interpreted as the United States and allies ) against Finland, or against the Soviet Union through Finland.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

During the meeting, Ribbentrop suggested that Barthou meet Hitler at once to sign a Franco-German non-aggression pact.

Ribbentrop for his part, who valued Japanese friendship far more than Chinese friendship, argued that Germany and Japan should sign the pact even without Chinese participation.

That night, Stalin replied that the Soviets were willing to sign the pact, and that he would receive Ribbentrop on 23 August.

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.

* 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

* September 1 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

* April 13 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a neutrality pact.

* January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75, 000 lives.

* January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.

During the Second World War, Germany asked Finland several times to sign the pact, but always the Finnish government declined the offer.

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.

As a sign of the importance of the pact, Tyndareus sacrificed a horse.

He summons Mephisto, who overcomes Faust's reluctance to sign a pact by telling him he can try it for one day with no obligation.

In order to get released Philip was forced to sign a treaty with Henry VII – the so called – which included a mutual defence pact, the extradition of rebels, including the Earl of Suffolk who as an exile was a guest of Philip in the Low Countries, and a trade agreement which allowed English merchants to import cloth duty free in to the Low Countries.

He also traveled to Moscow in 1981 to sign a twenty-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union.

In 1902 it became the first Asian nation to sign a mutual defense pact with a European nation, Britain.

This in turn safeguards the sign of the covenant, the brit milah (" covenant of circumcision ") which is considered the symbol of the everlasting pact between God and the Jewish people.

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

Germany and the Soviet Union were sworn enemies, but following the Munich Agreement, which effectively handed over Czechoslovakia ( a French and Soviet ally, and the only remaining presidential democracy in Central Europe ) to Germany, political realities allowed the Soviet Union to sign a non-aggression pact ( the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ) including a secret clause partitioning Poland, the Baltic Republics and Finland between the two spheres of interests.

In 1937, Maniu agreed to sign an electoral pact with the Iron Guard's Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, in the hope that this would block the monarch's maneuvers.

* 3 January-Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan sign a Soviet-mediated peace pact in Tashkent, Uzbek S. S. R.

When the Germans forced the Danish government to sign the anti-Comintern pact, a large protest broke out in Copenhagen.

* 1686: King James II and Louis XIV sign neutrality pact handing forts of St. John's and Port Royal back to the French.