I’ve said any number of times (most recently in this 2016 post) that creating the defined term this Agreement is pointless. Actually, let’s just call it dumb.
My thanks to @neil_neilzone for making that clear this morning with the following tweet:
*head explodes* pic.twitter.com/5IRrazUyNf
— Neil Brown (@neil_neilzone) June 2, 2017
When you create the defined term this Agreement by means of an integrated definition in the introductory clause, the redundancy isn’t as starkly apparent as it in Neil’s example.