Sentence examples for clandestine negotiations from inspiring English sources

Following months of clandestine negotiations, she struck a deal with the Iranian government that would, she said, finally break the deadlock over the amia case.

The setting of new national standards to protect investors should be done in public, he said, "not by private meeting or clandestine negotiations".

DUBLIN — The Rev. Alec Reid, an unassuming Roman Catholic priest who played a quiet but crucial role in clandestine negotiations that led to the historic Good Friday peace accord in Northern Ireland in 1998, died here on Friday.

Tahir had been ordered by his coach, Richard Pybus, to return to South Africa to play for Titans, but after clandestine negotiations he never caught the flight and instead was holed up in one of Pothas' flats on Southampton Marina.

This encouraged Nepalese who have placed their faith in a series of clandestine negotiations between the government and the Maoists, but seemed to cut little ice with the rebels.

This he achieved using plane tickets booked for "Mr and Mrs King", but not before the pair had been holed up in various Perth hotels, eating room service food and steadfastly avoiding the phone for three days of clandestine negotiations.

We join a Chinese-Vietnamese family celebrating tet (lunar new year) – 2013 is year of the snake, characterised by secret negotiations and clandestine activity.

One young Punjabi businessman who spent six months there in Taliban hands last year described it as a terrifying time of grimy cells, clandestine journeys, brutal beatings and grinding negotiations with his distraught, distant family.

"I knew then that negotiations had to be clandestine, or else Rabin would stop us in our tracks".

The messages from Baghdad, first relayed in February to an analyst in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy and planning, were part of an attempt by Iraqi intelligence officers to open last-ditch negotiations with the Bush administration through a clandestine communications channel, according to people involved.

After two weeks of careful negotiations they finally agreed for VICE News to visit their clandestine base in what used to be a children's summer camp in the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region.