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How to use the word preconditions in a Sentence?

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We’ve made clear over many, many months that we were prepared to engage with North Korea without any preconditions. The response from North Korea has been missile launch after missile launch, we have been very clear that our commitment to the security of our close allies and partners – South Korea and Japan – is ironclad. And beyond making that clear, we have been working very closely together in full coordination to take appropriate steps to strengthen even more our deterrence and defense capacity.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All parties must stop military operations and begin ceasefire negotiations without preconditions.

Prime Minister Abiy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Continued fighting prolongs the dire humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia. All parties must stop military operations and begin ceasefire negotiations without preconditions.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have stated our readiness to discuss the release of all prisoners without preconditions ... but Americans have not responded yet. It seems to us that Americans are more prepared than before to end this situation.

Ali Rabiei

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

No there are no preconditions.

Larry Kudlow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But we consider war and sanctions as two sides of the same coin, america's claim to negotiate without preconditions is unacceptable while threats and sanctions continue. They must give us more than JCPOA if they demand for something more than this agreement.

Hesameddin Ashena

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are not setting preconditions but nor is it a blank cheque, what we are saying is let's sit down, in the national interest, businesses up and down the country are saying we need to end this uncertainty, we need to respect the referendum result.

Stephen Barclay

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If it rains in the winter, that preconditions the ice to be more vulnerable in the summer, we are starting to realize, you have to look at all the seasons.

Marco Tedesco

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I don't have preconditions. If the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani government is willing, let's start right now, if there is sincerity, Iran has always welcomed dialogue and negotiations.

Hassan Rouhani

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They want to meet, I’ll meet. Anytime they want. Anytime they want, it’s good for the country, good for them, good for us, and good for the world. No preconditions. If they want to meet, I’ll meet.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There will be no sensational results, at the moment there are no obvious preconditions for any kind of compromise.

Volodymyr Fesenko

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Airbus and the EU have always been open to sit down and discuss a settlement with everything on the table and without any preconditions, if that is the case, we are happy to start a constructive discussion to find a solution to this long lasting dispute.

An Airbus spokeswoman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For right now we just have to go along with the process, have the negotiations and not try to make preconditions or presumptions about how it's going to go. The diplomats are going to have to go to work now.

Defense James Mattis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In accordance with the completion of such preconditions, the planned debt-for-equity swap by creditors will be executed as planned.

Hyundai Merchant Marine

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If this primary, without preconditions and without prejudice, allows us to select the best candidate of the left, it's a good idea, and it must be organized, i have no worries. I think the most credible candidate in times of crisis is the president (Francois Hollande).

Socialist Party head Jean-Christophe Cambadelis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You have to get to the negotiations without preconditions and have to get to the ceasefire and lay down the road ahead for the transition discussion itself, it's not in our hands.

John Kerry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is therefore important that preconditions are not attached to the start of the negotiation process. This we argue will be counterproductive, the threat of use of military action against irreconcilables cannot precede the offer of talks to all the groups.

Sartaj Aziz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are prepared to negotiate with them without any preconditions.

President Muhammadu Buhari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I hope the change in the position of our Western colleagues, which has unfortunately only come about as the result of terrible acts of terror, will spread to other Western partners. That the stance that the real battle with Islamic State can only be resolved once the fate of Assad is clear, that this position will put to one side, in my opinion there can now be no doubts that it is simply unacceptable to put forward any preconditions in order to unite in the battle against so-called Islamic State terrorists.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors are simply digesting the vote ... on the so-called preconditions for the third bailout package, there is some relief that Tsipras finds enough support among his ranks to pass these reforms.

Christian Lenk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We expect and call on the (Palestinian) Authority and its leader to act responsibly and accede to the proposal of the prime minister of Israel and enter into direct negotiations with Israel without preconditions.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm optimistic that if we all want it, we'll find a good solution, it's not about losing sleep over this, but about doing our work and creating the necessary preconditions for Britain to remain in the EU.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We shall at the end of the day establish normal relations with Turkey and establishing those normal relations should be without any preconditions.

Serzh Sarksyan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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