Sentence examples for close negotiations from inspiring English sources

Israel and Hamas, which has held Mr. Shalit since June 2006, had been in close negotiations over the details since the deal was announced this week.

Both Athens and its creditors are "very close" to finding the right formula that would protect mortgage holders from losing homes and close negotiations between the two sides.

We can't just close negotiations and wrap it up", but said there is room for "creativity" and that it all depended on "the proper words".

Sarah Main, director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, has also been in close negotiations with the Cabinet Office over the issue and is also hopeful.

Labor had been particularly successful in this during the 1983 election in regards to the Franklin dam and had built on that with close negotiations with green groups such as the Australian Conservation Foundation.

A FARC delegation has been in close negotiations with Colombian officials for the past two and a half years in Havana, and, in conversations I have had with representatives for both sides, all agree that Cuba has served a crucial role in moving the talks forward.

Finally, when closing negotiations, you might explore the possibility of a contingent contract in essence, a bet on which party's vision of the future will come true.

Rather than bringing the two sides closer, negotiations serve to play up remaining disagreements and to play down the broad scope of actual convergence.

After more than a decade of effort and six years of formal talks, the accession process reached a final milestone in June 2011, when Croatia closed negotiations with the EU.

People are more successful in closing negotiations when they are anchored by an existing and valued relationship.

The purpose of the competition is to steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue, closed negotiation.