Then, when the agreement proved popular, he stopped criticizing it until five days before the election.

These contacts were to be severed when agreement on basic principles proved impossible.

But even these agreements have proved difficult to carry out.

It was the second time in two days that they had sent out a note saying agreement on a verdict was proving difficult.

I hope today's agreement will prove to be the step forward we have been looking for, but the proof is in the testing.

The 1842 agreement proved the most important piece of railway legislation.

The agreements with the three university libraries have proved more problematic.

These two agreements have proven their usefulness in the past.

These agreements prove that we wish to have a good and normal neighbourly relationship with Russia.

At the top of the list is whether such an agreement would prove credible as the years went by, especially if economic conditions changed.