Hence, tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good.
It is also about the continual negotiation by the poetic imagination of the shifting territory between the human and the nonhuman; if it is sad it is also, in my experience, amazingly exhilarating.
There were enough liberals in the Republican Party, and enough conservatives among the Democrats, to require continual negotiation and compromise and to permit either party to help shape policy and to be competitive in most elections.
Johnson had spent his years as Majority Leader in continual negotiation with the chamber's true "master," Richard Russell, Jr., the Georgia segregationist whose weapon was the filibuster — not the lone-wolf stunts performed recently by Rand Paul and Ted Cruz but martial epics, involving a "platoon" of men who delivered four-hour monologues on a rotating basis.
However, such research takes place within a political environment that requires continual negotiation of different interests, including those of the members of the team, the communities to which they belong, and the structural imperatives at the intersection of universities and, in our case, the public sector.
They were wary of granting member units veto power typical of confederal arrangements, since that would render the center weak and cause "tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good".
The concept of a fixed, unitary, and bounded culture has given way to a sense of the fluidity and permeability of culture as a process of continual negotiation and change.
The negotiations continue.
Employing the lens of social positioning negotiation research, we find these negotiations are 'fluid', with continual redefinition not only of the substantive issues under negotiation, but also of the negotiation roles and relationships (i.e. 'shadow' negotiations).
