to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal

approximately / probably

vague / faint / indistinct

to restrict / condition

treaty / pact / CL: 個｜个

to weigh in a balance or on a scale

to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise

booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment

sketchy / concise / abbreviated

to sign a contract or agreement

New York

agreement / contract

convention (i.e. international agreement)

to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract)

graceful and subdued (style)

treaty / contract

to renew or extend a contract

to keep a promise / to honor an agreement

to agree (on a meeting place, date etc) / to reach agreement / to make an appointment

oath / vow / pledge / promise

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織｜北大西洋公约组织)

to practice strict economy (idiom)

lease

to miss an appointment

to terminate an agreement / to cancel a contract

to invite / invitation

engagement / wedding contract

faint / distant / barely audible

to keep an appointment / to keep one's word

to conclude a treaty

to restrict / to agree to a contract / offer; bid

intensive

to keep an appointment

graceful / charming

Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising

to break a promise / breach of contract

contract of alliance / oath or treaty between allies

peace treaty

terms (of an agreement)

New Testament

Old Testament

former agreement / former contract

to miss an appointment

surname Arroyo

entente / pact / agreement / negotiated settlement

secret appointment

to make a contract

to conclude a treaty / to make an agreement / contract (at bridge)

contract / written agreement

sparing / economical

to keep a promise / to honor an agreement

trade treaty (abbr. for 通商條約｜通商条约) / to mutually agree (to do sth) (abbr. for 商量約定｜商量约定)

Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil

to break a promise

book contract

bet / wager

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

covenant

contraction (in grammar) / abbreviation

Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain

Rio / abbr. for 里約熱內盧｜里约热内卢

agreement between the residents of a 里, an administrative district under a city or town (Tw)

Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights

forward contract (finance)

having no common measure / incommensurable / incommensurate

(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia

Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia

Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights

treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

diligent and thrifty (idiom)

to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ...; to regard (sth) as merely ...

UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)

commensurable / having a common measure

peace treaty

the Camp David agreement of 1978 brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Israel and Egypt

Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約｜不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China

Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia

Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet

takeover bid

Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights

Doctrine and Covenants

unequal treaty of 1898 whereby the Qing dynasty ceded the lease of Lüshun (Port Arthur) to Russia

futures contract (finance)

Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書｜宋书

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora / CITES

movie contract

specially engaged / employed or commissioned for a special task

Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia

nuclear test ban treaty

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise

to live frugally (idiom)

language pledge (to speak only the target language in a language school)