noun
definition
An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
definition
An agreement between two or more nations
verb
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To form a pact; to agree formally.
Examples of pact in a Sentence
By a pact concluded on Jan.
We'd sort of made a pact that our lives began when we met each other so the past wasn't discussed much, if at all.
Once signed, the Pact was roundly denounced by Trotsky.
I can get misty eyed just thinking about ' The Pact ' .
There was no electoral pact between the parties in favor of the Executive.
He did make a pact with the Orthodox Church.
Cynical disregard for the world's working class led him into the pact with Hitler.
We have openly declared our readiness to sign such a pact with Poland, too.
The Stability Pact has been widely discredited by events over the past few years.
In order to avoid a two front war like that of World War I Hitler signed a ten-year nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union.
However in spite of the great benefits these attributes bring, the agreement to take the drug turns into a Faustian pact.
The United States has rejected North Korean demands for a military non-aggression pact with Washington.
There is no mutual defense pact Nato remains the mutual defense organization for the Western alliance.
In August 1937 the Soviet Union concluded a pact of non-aggression with the Chinese Republic.
Some time whilst we slept the heavens signed a pact to align behind the pull of the gray faced moon.
Sevilla and Arsenal agreed a confidentiality pact, so neither club will reveal the fee.
What is more, the stability pact encourages deceit at the heart of European economic policy making.
The two youngest sisters died together in a joined suicide pact.
The latter two will almost certainly establish a Caucasian partnership, with the Warsaw Pact the most likely long-term gravitational center.
Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg aims to complete the review of the pact during his country's presidency of the European Union.
The cavalier attitude of France and Germany to the stability pact cannot have helped to convert the fairly puritanical Swedes to further continental entanglement.
There he is expected to strike a similar debt relief pact.
Written expert's reports for Court and PACT for lease renewal cases.
The brigade was not part of WGF, but had been directly subordinate to the Warsaw Pact, i.e. the Russians, and Moscow.
Glenys Malyon gave a valediction for Valerie for her term as chair of PACT.
The Porte, having induced the Greek government to persuade the insurgents not to oppose the occupation of several strategic posts, despatched a military governor to the island, proclaimed martial law, and issued a firman abrogating many important provisions of the Halepa Pact.
At the convention of Philadelphia in 1787, where the constitution was drafted, the sentiments of the framers were against slavery; but South Carolina and Georgia insisted on its recognition as a condition of their joining the Union, and even an engagement for the mutual rendition of fugitive slaves was embodied in the federal pact.
Still a general observance was involved in the idea of a natural law as a " dictate of right reason indicating the agreement or disagreement of an act with man's rational and social nature "; and we may observe that it was especially necessary to assume such a general observance in the case of contracts, since it was by an " express or tacit pact " that the right of property (as distinct from the mere right to noninterference during use) was held by him to have been instituted.
He appealed for speedy ratification of the pact, which had been negotiated through FAO last year.
Then there is the question of the growth and stability pact.
He believes that he must have talked his mother into the suicide pact.
New Data about the PACT Area The latest local unemployment figures for the PACT area are shown below.
One small Massachusetts town counted seventeen bulging bellies in the summer of 2008, the result of a possible pregnancy pact made by teen mothers-to-be.
Finally, promise rings can also be exchanged between best friends to seal a pact.
History Repeating - Bonnie is possessed by her ancestor Emily as a dark pact is revealed.
His pact with Lea often haunts the wizard because he knows she can command him to obey her as the pact requires.
The Pact of Halepa was restored, the troops were withdrawn from the interior, financial aid was promised to the island, a Christian governor-general was appointed, the assembly was summoned, and an imperial commissioner was despatched to negotiate an arrangement.
At the division of the empire of Charlemagne between the three sons of Louis the Debonnaire, effected by the pact of Verdun in 843, the forest had become a district and is called therein pagus Arduensis.
The ideas above expressed were not peculiar to Grotius; in particular the doctrine of the " fundamental pact " as the jural basis of government had long been maintained, especially in England, where the constitution historically established readily suggested such a compact.
Sagasta was summoned to El Pardo, and the result of his interview with the queeai-regent, Canovas and the generals, was the understanding ever afterwards known as the pact of El Pardo, the corner-stone of the whole policy of the regency, and of the two great statesmen who so long led the great dynastic parties and the governments of Doa Christina.
Canovas, who was consulted by the queen when Alonzo Martinez failed, faithfully carried out the pact of El Pardo and advised Her Majesty to send for Sagasta again, as he alone could, carry out what remained to be done of the Liberal programme.
This agreement is known as the Pact of Rome, because it was publicly proclaimed at a " Congress of the Oppressed Nationalities of Austria-Hungary," held on April 8 in the Roman Capitol.
It was assumed that the individual members of society, by express or implied pact, agree to obey some person or persons; sometimes it is described as an unqualified handing over; sometimes it is a transfer subject to qualifications, and with notice that in certain contingencies this will be withdrawn.
There can be little doubt that the story told there of the reconquest of Northern Mercia by Edmund refers to the compact with Anlaf, made as a result of the campaign, and it is probable that Simeon's statement is a wide exaggeration, due in part at least to a confused reminiscence of the earlier pact between Alfred and Guthrum.
And reciprocally, whatever may be the absolute rights of the ecclesiastical society over the appointment of its dignitaries, the administration of its property, and the government of its adherents, the exercise of these rights is limited and restricted by the stable engagements and concessions of the concordatory pact, which bind the head of the church with regard to the nations.
But on the descent of the emperor Henry VII., Frederick entered into an alliance with him, and in violation of the pact of Caltabellotta made war on the Angevins again (1313) and captured Reggio.
On April 23 President Wilson followed up this private memorandum by a public manifesto to the Italian nation, in which he repudiated the Pact of London and appealed for the application of the same principles on the Adriatic as those enforced against Germany.
The intervention of President Roosevelt and of President Diaz of Mexico brought about an armistice on the 19th of July, and the so-called "Marblehead Pact" was signed on the following day on board the United States cruiser "Marblehead."
She endeavoured to prevent the alliance between King Guntram and Childebert, which was cemented by the pact of Andelot; and made several attempts to assassinate Childebert by sending against him hired bravoes armed with poisoned scramasaxes (heavy single-edged knives).
The signatories were careful to disclaim all idea of a pact or treaty, and to define the declaration as a mere statement of ideals and principles which could not acquire binding force until ratified by elected representatives of the nation as a whole.