James G. Stavridis

Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin's popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.

American Educator

Charles C. Mann

The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time that nations around the world had officially agreed that climate change was a problem and that concrete steps should be taken to avoid its worst effects.

American Journalist

Sam Mendes

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

British Director

Graham Swift

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

British Author

James L. Brooks

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

American Producer

Julie Andrews

I've made my pact with the Lord for the next lifetime. I would love to be a first-class musician. A super one.

English Actress

Bette Midler

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

American Actress

Dan Castellaneta

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

American Actor

Jack Thorne

I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.

English Playwright

Taylor Caldwell

American Author

Pacts between countries or groups have a formal, official tone and often relate to policies or treaties.

Official Commitments

The word 'pact' implies a strong commitment that is not easily broken without serious consequences.

Binding Nature

Using 'pact' suggests that all parties involved have agreed to work together towards a common goal.

Implies Cooperation

'Pact' can denote a solemn promise between individuals, often private and made in trust.

Personal Promise

A pact can be a commitment to oneself, like a resolution, with a sense of personal responsibility.

Personal Goals

A pact often carries emotional significance, underlining its importance to those involved.

Emotional Weight

 And so the protesters demanded, very simply, that the pact be scraped, and the government to institute a more transparent ratification process. And that drew widespread public support. It ended a little more than three weeks later, after the government promised and agreed

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 was a black pact which in theory should be slightly rarer in this area now when we came driving along here we saw the water backbone we saw it with a little one and we thought oh that's odd it's a it's a water bug car flying with the bull and then we stopped and realized

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 or completing our advance directives -- tasks that I had always avoided -- were not as daunting as they once seemed. I realized that completing an advance directive is an act of love -- like a wedding vow. A pact to take care of someone,

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 put the wolves in a playful mood the focus of our project was to examine the individual relationships that the Wolves had with one another and it was here that the more subtle signs of pact unity revealed themselves rarely to two wolves

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 the fields would never be fertile again, and the distinction between the Earth and the underworld would soon dissolve. So, they made a pact. For two thirds of every year, Persephone would return to the land of the living,

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 that they would abandon me so? Is the gift of songwriting taken away as easily as it seems to have been bestowed? Or perhaps there's a more -- a deeper psychological reason. It was always a Faustian pact anyway.

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 So I didn't speak out about the government's early stance on AIDS. I didn't voice my concerns loudly enough. Many doctors, health professionals, may think I did nothing wrong. Our pact with our patients,

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 African bird has formed a mutual defense pact with a slightly larger animal the ferocious half-ton Nile crocodile you can imagine how the croc might protect the dicker but what can a bird do for

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 And although I'm struggling with all these questions in my mind right now, I have a pact with tapirs. I know in my heart that tapir conservation is my cause. This is my passion.

Pact

An agreement between two or more people, groups or countries to do something together or not to do something.

Often appears as...

A promise to yourself or someone else to do something.

Often appears as...

Official Commitments

Binding Nature

Implies Cooperation

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