The phrase "a pause in talks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a temporary halt or break in discussions or negotiations between parties.
Example: "After several hours of intense negotiations, the representatives agreed to take a pause in talks to reassess their positions."
Alternatives: "a break in discussions" or "a halt in negotiations."
"They still believe the rebels are rapists and looters," says Muftah Rabbani, a leader of the Warfallah tribe in Bani Walid, during a pause in talks held at a roadside mosque on the front-line.
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On August 23rd the FARC's negotiators announced a "pause" in the talks.Mr Santos called their bluff, ordering his negotiators back to Bogotá.
Many observers now anticipate a pause in the talks after March that would defer the most difficult bargaining until after the Mexican vote.
The program still waits for a pause in your talking before it types, so that it can use context to choose, for example, the correct homonym (there/they're/their).
But it was just three months ago that Mr. Bush announced an indefinite pause in talks with the North on the grounds that Pyongyang could not be trusted to live up to any agreements.
If Senator Clinton talks about a pause in our trade deals, the world will not pause.
The UN Security Council endorsed a statement from Rwanda, the current president of the council, calling for a "durable" truce based on an Egyptian initiative - under which a pause in hostilities would lead to substantive talks on the future of Gaza, including the opening of Gaza's border crossings.
And the Bush administration — which is now talking about a "pause" in the drawdown of American troops — certainly isn't doing anything to change their minds.
Still, if the history of virtual communications is any guide, the more business people communicate with high-technology tools, the more likely they are also to want to have a cup of coffee together or make small talk during a pause in a face-to-face conference.
"I'm very interested in talk," he said after a pause in which he had been propped against his doorjamb reading his pamphlet in dead silence.
