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He was determined to destroy the Sino-British Hong Kong Accords, shutting down the colony, leaving the whole territory in chaos.
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accords = agreements
Let's just say it's a lot and you two personally can count on six figures, if everything goes according to the book.
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according to = in keeping with
He assumed it was me out there, but I didn't know me, so I couldn't act according to his script.†
According to the rules, if anyone wants any part of that record-from the White House to the State Department to the holy Joint Chiefs-he has to go through the offices of the director and his chief analysts right here at Langley.†
According to their plan he turned left, maintaining the pace agreed upon; he was to arrive at the comer as close to 2:38 as possible.†
A great taipan, 'the greatest taipan in Hong Kong,' according to the most recent and most recently dead source.†
According to plan, he was to go to the farthest aisle on the right, turn left, and continue down the row of parked cars until he saw a metallic gray 1986 Pontiac LeMans with an ornamental crucifix suspended from the rearview mirror.†
In the gospel according to Saint Alex, it's written that in order to bait a trap one has to use a large part of the truth, even a dangerous amount.†
Well, according to Detective Sleaze, there were eleven unaccompanied children booked on various flights, and eight women, two of them nuns, who had reservations with minors.†
According to Corporal Sleaze, who I must say does his follow-ups, there are small flight connections to a dozen or so minor offshore islands.†
According to their passports, these three Americans had flown in to Philadelphia's International Airport within six days of one another eight months ago.†
"Use all the banal trigger words you can come up with" was the gospel according to St. Conklin.†
Jason's imagination floated, making quick sharp forays into reality and fantasy, swiftly searching for the words that might be found in the gospel according to St. Alex.†
According to my uncle, they were originally to meet at the airport but the Crown governor's reception line precluded it.†
According to my uncle, there was a brief discussion regarding the judge's law clerks, how they are prone to errors and if one had been made with his passport, he'd fly them all down to apologize.†
D'accord, mon ami, but never let the Irish nuns hear us.†
D'accord.†
D'accord.†
"According to the yid head doctor," interrupted the mafioso, "you got two more they know about.†
According to my specialists-and I purposely used the word 'my,' if you follow me-on a prearranged schedule, say every fourth or fifth day, the new patient is 'shot up to the moon'—that's the phrase they use, it's not mine, Christ knows.†
According to Alex, one does not underestimate Marie Elise St. Jacques.†
A job was done according to a predesigned plan, so there's no call for really normal curiosity-no gathering in the street, no excitement, not even a collective postcrisis indignation.†
...According to the Reco-Metropolitan's billing files—†
According to the files, the machine was leased to a small importing firm on Eleventh Avenue several blocks from the piers.†
And I assume that due to foreign entanglements you're working backwards into a domestic conspiracy that should be incontestably established before you alert the guardians of domestic accord, namely, the Federal Bureau.†
Speaking of money, my dear old enemy, how and where am I to be paid according to our agreement last night on the telephone?†
According to the billing computers, it's a mission home run by an organization called the Magdalen Sisters of Charity.†
According to Conklin, there was an ambush at a private airfield in Pontcarré.†
The jet rolled away and Krupkin lowered his voice accordingly, still loud but not shouting.†
According to the consul general in New York, Bryce Ogilvie was finished in America.†
He may or may not know that he's been spotted, the car picked up, but he has to assume the worst and act accordingly.†
Twice before, when the codes were transmitted and in accord with the maximum alert that was in force, the technician had phoned the gates of "Israel" and "Italy" and was told that only a fuel truck had passed through.†

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(1) (accord as in: according to, or in accord with)
in keeping with; or in agreement/harmony/unity with
This meaning of accord is often seen in the form according to or accordingly where it can take on more specific meanings. For example:
- "According to Kim, ..." -- as stated by
- "To each according to her ability." -- based upon
- "Points are scored according to how well they perform." -- depending upon
- "The dose is calculated according to body weight." -- in proportion to
- "We got a flat tire. Accordingly, I pulled to the side of the road." -- because of what was just said; or as a result
(2) (accord as in: reached an accord)
an agreement

In this sense, accord can refer to a formal agreement (such as one written between two countries) or an informal agreement (such as an unvoiced consensus about what should be done).
(3) (accord as in: done of her own accord)
mind

This sense of accord is typically seen in the form own accord or one accord.
(4) (accord as in: accord her the respect deserved)
to give someone special treatment -- especially respect
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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