What is true about sales of music over the last year

No agreement was （） in the discussion as neither side would give way to the other.

Gift giving is the same thing in China and America in that （）.

Man was, is and always will be trying to improve his living conditions.

事實勝于雄辯。

An idle youth, a needy age.

There is nothing so admirable as a man whose sacrifices his life and happiness for others. 

所有的公共場所都應完全禁止吸煙。

It is when you nearly lose someone when you become fully conscious of how much you value them.

No one should blind himself （） the well-known fact.