Sentence examples for a quiet negotiation from inspiring English sources

WHAT was headed for municipal brinksmanship suddenly became a quiet negotiation in which both surfers and fishermen seem to think that something can be worked out.

A plan for recruiting summer school teachers that began as a quiet negotiation has set off a power struggle pitting the Giuliani administration against the teachers' union and the interim schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy.

Traditionally, the Wells process provided an occasion for quiet negotiation, but Section 821 would change that occasion into an opportunity for the aggrieved defendant to confront his accusers and berate them.

After several years of quiet negotiation and a tacit agreement to jointly name Chinese bishops, the Patriotic Association has since 2010 consecrated four bishops over the Vatican's objections, including Joseph Yue Fusheng, who was ordained Friday in the northern city of Harbin.

Virtually every major decision he has made has come with delicate, usually quiet negotiation with Republicans to achieve a consensus.

Only quiet negotiation and patience hold promise.

Typically, they operate behind closed doors, through quiet negotiation with politicians.

Foreign offices, diplomats, and quiet negotiation were eclipsed as prime ministers and their staffs executed policy in a blaze of publicity.

But if this is the case, the method it will be dealt with is quiet negotiation and quiet dialogue with the United States and not confrontational steps to alienate one part of the hierarchy in the US as opposed to the other".

Three years after the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan and introduced a harsh and unforgiving Islamic piety that all but obliterated women from public life, relief and development experts say that months of quiet negotiation with Taliban leaders are beginning to dent the prohibitions.

The closing of what was the country's largest independent nongovernmental organization is the culmination of six months of growing tension between the foundation and authorities in Minsk, the Belarus capital, and a summer of quiet negotiations aimed at resolving the dispute.