The agreement will take effect once twenty-five countries have ratified it into law after signing it.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

He spoke before signing an order to create the Task Force on Middle-Class Working Families.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Then he stopped. He said: "I never,in all my life, felt more sure that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

The signing of the eighteen fifty compromise cooled the debate for a time.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Hollywood Records made a good move in signing the Jonas Brothers.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

An Ally employee admitted robo-signing thousands of foreclosures each month.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

"We're at a point in time when we think we have a real opportunity because with the signing of this joint declaration, the parties are coming together and saying that we share a common commitment to address the situation and to offer children better hope for the future through education."

VOA: special.2010.10.26

Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way hometo see his little boy and was signing some autographs.

VOA: standard.other

Even during the signing ceremony he emphasized that the EU should remain a union of sovereign states.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

After the signing, the treaty must be ratified by the Russian Duma and the U.S.Senate, where 67 of the 100 Senators must approve it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

There would be no lifetime limits on coverage beginning immediately upon President Obama signing legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Conference organizers say they hope they'll have a deal on the table for signing.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Mr.Mugabe,signing the accord on behalf of the ZANU-PF party, called it a historic event.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The treacherous Rumplestiltskin tricks our hero into signing away his life literally.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev referred to the conflict during Thursday's signing ceremony, saying it happened too recently to justify NATO exercises in Georgia scheduled to begin May 6.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The heads of several international humanitarian organizations witnessed the signing.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

World War Two broke out a week after the signing.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In a White House bill-signing ceremony Wednesday, the president reaffirmed a goal he set out early this year: to double exports of U.S.goods and services in the next five years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Sitting next to Mr.Meles at the signing ceremony were three top members of the old Coalition for Unity and Democracy,or CUD which mounted a powerful challenge to Mr.Meles party in the 2005 parliamentary vote.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The Palestinians say they decided to take the matter of statehood to the U.N.Security Council out of frustration that 16 years after the signing of the Oslo accords there is still no peace agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Days after signing a deal to cut U.S.and Russian nuclear arsenals, President Obama hopes to strengthen global resolve to safeguard nuclear stockpiles and keep radioactive materials out of the hands of terrorist groups and rogue states.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

During her visit to Angola, Clinton witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Angola's petroleum ministry, the US Agency for International Development and the oil firm Chevron to support more diversified agricultural production.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

Experts say the two sides also will discuss a host of other issues, including arms control after the recent signing of the New START Treaty, what to do about Iran following tougher United Nations sanctions, as well as trade and economic questions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18