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By signing a contract, you agree to certain terms and conditions.
Tom is signing documents.
I am signing my contract.
Tom was signing autographs in front of the theater.
I'm not signing anything.
Few people take the trouble to read all the terms and conditions of a contract before signing it.
Tom claimed that the contract was invalid because he'd been coerced into signing it.
You'd better examine the contract carefully before signing.
Movie subtitles
Signing up for the race, of course.
The new spring collection, and totally out of my price range, but I'm signing my official start papers with Oliver today, and I felt like I had to step up my fashion game, you know?
Why should the signing of these articles be suddenly held up?
So our hero wrote letters to MacCaulay, signing Wynant's name. so that MacCaulay would continue to send the money to Julia.
Happy Hour signing off.
What would my people think, signing such a treaty when your soldiers are on the border?
He's got some articles in his cabin what need signing.
I'm signing off now.
They're signing on a full crew.
Just go on signing the papes.
I'll put on my signing clothes.
In a half-hour you'd be signing your name to a confession.
So I had to get him to sign without his knowing what he was signing.
Sign it. I want to know what I'm signing.
Well, I'm satisfied as long as he does not start signing my name to cheques.
There will be no signing until next year.
And this hand is paralyzed from signing for registered letters.
Would you mind signing this receipt again? - What receipt?
Before signing a contract, you read it and think it over.
Then I will. He'd like, on signing.
Yes, he'd like, on signing.
This is operator 77 B signing off.
You can save yourself a lot of trouble by just signing now.
We'll get your land just the same. I wouldn't dream of signing a thing like that till I talk to some lawyer about it.
Signing off.
No dice, Geoff. Signing off.
Three minutes after I told her, she had me signing on a lot of dotted lines.
Why not postpone the signing until then?
If we shoot the signing now, we can make the first editions.
We want a picture of Rogers signing.
I'm due back in New York. Well, I'm not signing anything until after I've had that trip.
Then perhaps you wouldn't mind signing this waiver now.
And your father, instead of signing our marriage contract, would have to sign a warrant for my arrest.
They're signing to assign the flats!
News and current affairs
Barely two months ago, the signing of a constitutional document by a US-appointed group of un-elected Iraqi officials was heralded as if it were the re-enactment of America's constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
The launch of five Qassam rockets into Israel five days after the signing of the truce suggests its precariousness.
At the end of August, I joined nine other American Nobel Prize winners in economics in signing an open letter to the American public.
The signing ceremony is therefore a message of hope.
The signing of a new unity deal between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah party earlier this month has heightened an unprecedented struggle within Hamas over its future course as an Islamist movement.
In February, Mashal crowned these efforts in Qatar with the signing of the new unity agreement with Fatah, which commits both Palestinian movements to a transitional government under Abbas's leadership.
That was the topic for discussion at the annual signing of the Magna Charta Universitatum at the mother of universities, the University of Bologna, earlier this year.
That means signing digital free-trade agreements and creating a true European digital single market out of today's fragmented 28 national jurisdictions.
Yet many Europeans talk of imposing draconian privacy or data-localization rules as a precondition for signing any new free-trade deal.
Only last year the two countries commemorated the 50 th anniversary of the signing of the US-Japan Security Treaty.
Given the divergence among the positions included in the Lima text, arriving at a draft fit for signing in Paris next December will be a huge task.
The first step at Bali was to break the deadlock that has crippled the global response to climate change since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol a decade ago.
Germany, for its part, is better at signing agreements on enhanced defense cooperation among Europeans than it is at honoring them.
India's leaders should make the same pledges, and should also join other nuclear powers in signing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
As a result, the Tutsi-dominated government entered into negotiations with Hutu leaders, which led to the signing of a political accord in August 2000.
As for Ukraine, recent gestures of solidarity, such as the signing of an association agreement, are unlikely to develop into anything substantial in the foreseeable future.
Ukraine is a long way from achieving this, but signing an Association Agreement would pave the way toward entry talks, while also creating tremendous economic opportunities.
But it will no longer be able to condemn the US for not signing environmental treaties, or point a finger at China for its massive output of pollution.
Likewise, one of the bravest, most lucid Chinese intellectuals, Liu Xiaobo, was arrested in December for signing Charter 08, and has yet to be released.
In signing the Bucharest Declaration, governments have committed to stopping new admissions to institutions by developing community-based services.
The first step - signing the agreement - represents the parties' commitment to take the necessary subsequent steps.
Many thought that this solidarity had been achieved in October 2004, with the signing of the Nice treaty, which outlined an EU constitution.
People began taking matters into their own hands by attending rallies, signing petitions, and donating to political parties and activist groups in unprecedented numbers.
TOKYO - 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Japan-United States Security Treaty.
But, 17 years since the signing of the Oslo agreement and the launch of bilateral talks between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, there has been very little movement toward a Palestinian state.
VIENNA - Forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded with the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, a historic triumph of cooperation over conflict that set the stage for the end of the Cold War.
Signing the papers would be groundbreaking, as it would signal for the first time that suspected rights abusers might face trial anywhere in the world if justice was not likely at home.