Sentence examples for beginning of a negotiation from inspiring English sources

"That's the beginning of a negotiation".

"Even if we disagree on the shape, we think there is the beginning of a negotiation".

Being fired from a job becomes the beginning of a negotiation, while a routine school suspension instantly goes to appeal.

A US official said there had been a "fair amount of disagreement" but also areas of common ground, adding: "I believe we have the beginning of a negotiation".

A US negotiator said: "We are getting to the things that matter … this is at least the beginning of a negotiation".

While the United States supports the goal of a nuclear-free Middle East, it stipulated that any conference would be only a discussion, not the beginning of a negotiation to compel Israel to sign on to the treaty.

The speaker of the House, Joe Straus, said in an interview that he saw the House bill as the beginning of a long negotiation.

This should be the penultimate step before the sales rep approaches the customer but, in practice, this could instead be the beginning of a prolonged negotiation between Sales and Pricing.

This was the beginning of a jurisdictional negotiation that would last for decades — and is still in full swing today.

[We developed it after we conducted a study] monitoring media discourse from 2011 to 2016 and found that coverage of women's issues in Syria increased during international days like Women's Day or Mother's Day, or at the beginning of a political negotiation.

The IMF's proposal, the details of which the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, marks the beginning of an intense negotiation process aimed at avoiding a replay of last summer's crisis when Greece, brought to the brink of economic collapse, was nearly forced out of the eurozone.