by agreement

The desire to hear from a second set of prosecutors ignores the reality that many hearings in criminal court proceed by agreement, the outcome negotiated in advance by both parties.

Their first Commons exchanges since the election were dominated by agreement on the need to continue sending military aid.

Assuming that about 70 percent of American adults are in a relationship, this indicates that 2 or 3 percent of all American adults are, by agreement, not strictly monogamous.

The survey found that college students are not particularly antisemitic, as measured by agreement with such traditional tropes as that Jews have too much power and are unfair business competitors.

To your point, particularly with Crimea, which Russia views as a strategic interest to it because it's their warm-water port on the Black Sea, the likelihood of them giving that up, either by agreement or through war, is low.