In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

In a second agreement, France will provide technical assistance to Brazil so that Brazil can design and produce indigenous nuclear powered submarines, to be completely built in Brazil.

The devices can switch roles, by agreement, and the slave can become the master ( for example, a headset initiating a connection to a phone will necessarily begin as master, as initiator of the connection ; but may subsequently prefer to be slave ).

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

The error must be located and rectified and the totals of debit column and credit column recalculated to check for agreement before any further processing can take place.

Proprietary software can use Berkeley DB only under a commercial license agreement between Oracle and the application's publisher.

) to trivial ( romance, games ) can be any kind of imaginative encoding: flowers, game cards, clothes, fans, hats, melodies, birds, etc., in which the sole requisite is the previous agreement of the meaning by both the sender and the receiver.

That is, when multiple sources of evidence are in agreement, the conclusion can be very strong even when none of the individual sources of evidence are very strong on their own.

Many nouns can actually function as members of two genders or even all three, and the gender classes of English nouns are usually determined by their agreement with pronouns, rather than marking on the nouns themselves.

This security relationship can be changed or terminated by mutual agreement.

This security relationship can be changed or terminated by mutual agreement.

The simplest model for this that is in general agreement with observed phenomena is the Cold Dark Matter cosmology ; that is to say that clustering and merging is how galaxies gain in mass, and can also determine their shape and structure.

* In April 2005, an agreement was signed to build a railway from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan ( see Kars Baku Tbilisi railway line ) probably using ( Standard gauge ) supposedly so that it can eventually link with China.

) The use of the forms of a lexeme is governed by rules of grammar ; in the case of English verbs such as < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span >, these include subject-verb agreement and compound tense rules, which determine which form of a verb can be used in a given sentence.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

The various agreements which make up the Marrakech Agreement combine as an indivisible whole ; no entity can be party to any one agreement without being party to them all.

For example, person and number are categories that can be used to define paradigms in English, because English has grammatical agreement rules that require the verb in a sentence to appear in an inflectional form that matches the person and number of the subject.

However, for many NLP problems, the definition of a gold standard is a complex task, and can prove impossible when inter-annotator agreement is insufficient.

A nondisclosure agreement can protect any type of information that is not generally known.

On the other hand, positive emotions often facilitate reaching an agreement and help to maximize joint gains, but can also be instrumental in attaining concessions.

This can occur if there is lack of agreement about the best definition of the term.

When such an agreement is proposed, the court can reject it if it disagrees with the proposed sentence, in which case the defendant has an opportunity to withdraw his plea.

`` We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but could never come to an agreement.

This section prevents the military departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

This is an obscure prophecy, but in combination with other passages, it has been interpreted to mean that the " prince who is to come " will make a seven-year covenant with Israel that will allow the rebuilding of the temple and the reinstitution of sacrifices, but “ in the middle of the week ,” he will break the agreement and set up an idol of himself in the temple and force people to worship it — the “ abomination of desolation .” Paul writes:

Comic book historians continue to debate the exact boundaries of these eras, but they have come to an agreement, the terms for which originated in the fan press.

Chiang Kai-shek threatened the French with war in response to maneuvering by the French and Ho Chi Minh's forces against each other, forcing them to come to a peace agreement.

This often leads to the neglect of badly needed repairs when the communities cannot come to an agreement among themselves about the final shape of a project.

So his only choice was to put down work for a while and try to come to an agreement with Egmont.

Talks between these soldiers and the authorities have so far failed to come to an agreement.

He announced that he had reached an agreement with the Communist Czechoslovakian government that the refugees could leave: " We have come to you to tell you that today, your departure ..." ( German: " Wir sind zu Ihnen gekommen, um Ihnen mitzuteilen, dass heute Ihre Ausreise ...").

The members of the task group were not able to come to an agreement choosing between two technology proposals, Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

Workers have a right to strike when they feel their boundaries are being crossed and the best way for the employer to fix the employees unhappiness is to come to a mutual agreement.

The Council of Officers at first attempted to come to some agreement with the leaders of Parliament.

In late July and early August 1939, Soviet and German officials agreed on most of the details for a planned economic agreement, and specifically addressed a potential political agreement, which the Soviets stated could only come after an economic agreement.

The surrender was formalized in a written agreement, where the town leaders agreed to cease hostilities in return for promises from the Israeli officers, including brigade commander Ben Dunkelman ( the leader of the operation ), that no harm would come to the civilians of the town.

When both the prosecutor and the defendant have come to an agreement, the proposal is submitted to the judge, who can refuse or accept the plea bargaining.

* In case of a double election the pope must exhort the princes to come to an agreement.

Eventually the young Q comes around, but the Continuum is not entirely convinced, so in negotiation with Q, they come to an agreement.

To forestall French incursion into what they had come to consider as their own sphere, the British government renewed efforts to finalise a boundary agreement with France and on 1 January 1890 instructed Governor Hay in Sierra Leone to get from chiefs in the boundary area friendship treaties containing a clause forbidding them to treat with another European power without British consent.

However, the parties were unable to come to an agreement due to President Bill Clinton's failure to consult with the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad during the negotiating process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's backtracking on the issue of the northeastern shore of Lake Tiberias and Syria's nonnegotiable demand that Israel withdraw to the positions it held on 4 June 1967.

Additionally, many pieces of retail software come with an end-user license agreement ( EULA ) which typically prohibits decompilation, reverse engineering, analysis, modification, or circumventing of copy protection.

They failed to come to an agreement on a development transition path which allowed the research version of Samba he was developing ( known at the time as Samba-NTDOM ) to slowly be integrated into Samba.

: Now as we have come to an agreement on Wilusa over which we went to war ...