Excess work is now more likely to have to be reallocated to a colleague in the same team, a process that can involve a time-consuming negotiation - rather than quick and simple instructions.
Time-consuming negotiations with the UK should be postponed".
By urging that the step be taken immediately, Mr. Kerry was trying to avoid the need for time-consuming negotiations.
"Until now we've had 23 donor countries dealing with 49 sub-Saharan African countries, and that means more than 1,100 tedious, time-consuming negotiations.
Time-consuming negotiations with the UK should be postponed and EU leaders should instead be locked in a room until they agree on a comprehensive and collective strategy to tackle this growing refugee crisis before it's too late.
But some legislation could be slow in coming for various reasons, including that the Republican committee leaders in the House and the Democratic committee leaders in the Senate might not agree on exactly how to generate the savings, requiring time-consuming negotiations.
The government says the controversial change has been made in order to speed up the process of academy conversion by avoiding time-consuming negotiations over land, but critics are concerned it represents a major handover of local authority land worth billions of pounds.
I suspect the publishers analyzed Oyster's offer in what must have been some pretty time-consuming negotiations and dinner parties, and, seeing that Oyster would be unable to pay for the customer's effective per-book discount (which is the whole point of a subscription service) if it were to succeed, they concluded its failure was guaranteed one way or the other.
By May of this year, newly in a job he didn't want and shouldn't have taken, the Speaker of the House was already locked in brimstone-scented negotiations, psychosomatically consuming his six-per-cent body-fat content while trying to retain some chance of ever getting the job he really wants, a half mile down the street.
U.S. Consumers Not Consuming.
It was also recognised that negotiation was time consuming.
