Sentence examples for compelled to negotiate from inspiring English sources

The government was compelled to negotiate.

The early colonists were often compelled to negotiate on Indian terms, and treaties took a bewildering array of shapes ranging from rituals to gestures to pictographs.

Thymaya Payne, director of the award-winning documentary Stolen Seas, says Ali has always insisted he was compelled to negotiate on behalf of the pirates.

John was compelled to negotiate once more when London went over to the rebels in May, and on June 15 at Runnymede he accepted the baronial terms embodied in a document known as the Articles of the Barons.

They were compelled to negotiate with Nelson.

Andros refused the bribe, and Coursey ended up being compelled to negotiate further through Andros and the Mohawk in Albany.

Those who hope that arming the opposition will help stem the regime's current resurgence and compel it to negotiate are making a dangerous assumption.

Argentina's industry minister called for British imports to be banned, in the latest attempt to compel Britain to negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1982 war.

Some merchants are pushing for legislation in Congress that would compel banks to negotiate the fees and are supporting a second measure that one of its sponsors calls a "credit card bill of rights for merchants".

Whether or not the sanctions will compel Iran to negotiate remains to be seen.

Earlier this spring, however, some graduate students contacted by Next Wave expressed hope that should a union contract be negotiated, the university might be "compelled" to extend union-negotiated arrangements to students across the campus.