security pact
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecurityandpact
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security
noun
uk/sɪˈkjʊə.rə.ti/us/səˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/
protection of a person, building, organization, or country against threats such as crime or attacks by ...
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pact
noun[C]
uk/pækt/us/pækt/
a formal agreement between two people or groups ...
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(Definition ofsecurityandpactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Those three countries need to get together and adopt a jointsecuritypact.
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I come back to the position about what we might possibly do in the question of asecuritypact.
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Control and inspection of arms are the keys to a collectivesecuritypactthat will be valuable and effective.
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Asecuritypactis really meaningless unless it has a guarantor behind it.
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That justifies the regionalsecuritypactapproach.
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Indeed, if there is not disarmament and proper control and inspection, there is really not much hope of asecuritypactwhich is of any value.
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It seems to me, however, that the localsecuritypact, combining nations whose interests are immediately at stake in local dangerous areas, would be more effective.
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Locarno is asecuritypact.
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Unlike the 1951securitypact, the new treaty provided for a ten-year term, after which it could be revoked upon one year's notice by either party.
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Unlike the 1952securitypact, the new treaty provided for a ten-year term, after which it could be revoked upon one year's notice by either party.
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I jotted down some of them: collective security, sanctions, security pacts, nonaggression pacts, international air conventions.
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It was always used by those who were against collective security pacts.
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Such schemes would form the groundwork—so to speak—of local security pacts.
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I think he called them guaranteed pacts—what are often called security pacts.
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