But campaigners are sceptical, particularly of voluntary partnerships, an approach favoured by George Bush's administration and increasingly winning support from other countries.

She said that while the plan would include "every kind of approach going," the idea of voluntary partnerships would be "a significant part" of the package.

GEO is a voluntary partnership of governments and international organizations.

Training from starting points which are different towards an end which is uniform is not a unique aspect of voluntary partnership.

A union to be established by the Netherlands and Indonesia on the basis of voluntary and equal partnership with equal rights.

I propose a voluntary public-private partnership between the Board of Education and the medical community.

This voluntary partnership between the EPA and the ground freight industry is designed to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution through increased fuel efficiency programs.

NPEC is a voluntary partnership among governmental and nongovernmental providers and users of education data.

All these problems suggest that voluntary partnerships, however good our intentions, will have difficulty delivering the goals.

The program is a "voluntary partnership between the EPA and the natural gas industry to encourage voluntary reductions in the emissions of methane."