Sentence examples for baseline for negotiations from inspiring English sources

But since those boundaries have long been the presumed baseline for negotiations, many in the Arab world were unimpressed.

For the Palestinians, a formal American endorsement of the 1967 borders as a baseline for negotiations might make them somewhat less suspicious about returning to the table.

Pay consultants brought in by firms seeking a new boss often get blamed for regarding the most generous existing package in the market as the baseline for negotiations.

But for nannies and parents alike, the legislation, if enacted, could well create a kind of baseline for negotiations over pay, hours and benefits.

But if Mr. Netanyahu turns down the United States, officials said, Mr. Obama could provide the Palestinians with their own assurance: his formal endorsement of a plan under which Israel's pre-1967 borders, with land swaps, would form the baseline for negotiations over territory.

Since I'm the kind of trimmer who thought that Republicans should have cut a bigger deal during the last debt-ceiling debate — you know, back when Obama had every political incentive to look bipartisan, and $800 billion in tax increases wasn't yet the baseline for negotiations — you can guess that I think strategic retreat would be the better part of valor.

That becomes the baseline for negotiation and we just give from there.

Here was a president of the United States, the traditional patron of Israel, saying that the baseline for territorial negotiations should be land exchanges based on the boundaries that existed before the 1967 war — a call that was echoed earlier this year by an Arab League delegation.

The president's annual budget -- actually a budget request -- traditionally provides the baseline for policy and budget negotiations between the two political parties, legislative chambers and the executive branch of government.

These principles provide a foundation for negotiations.

After the conclusion of negotiations, the European Union agreed to bring back the issue for negotiations.