Their vision of Cole's 98-mile-an-hour fastball outweighed any dread of negotiating with the agent Scott Boras.
Many people dread having to negotiate, partly because they are not sure how to act and respond.
In creating the score for Survivor, Shechter is negotiating territory in which dread cohabits with a consoling beauty.
It is the final day of our winter league foursomes and the candidates for the dreaded wooden spoon will be nervously negotiating the frozen fairways.
Dread Pirate Roberts starts speaking to redandwhite, apparently negotiating the murder of FriendlyChemist.
Union officials predict that the legislation will pressure employers, who dread having a contract imposed, to become serious about negotiating.
However, don't underestimate the insistence of the human ego on a negotiated immortality and the dread of losing even this.
That would increase their borrowing costs - the "contagion" economists dread - and encourage them to negotiate for similar deals.
A stronger, respected civilian governance structure would have more authority to negotiate an orderly transition in lieu of the chaos and endless civil war that many dread.
