Sentence examples for drive a bargain from inspiring English sources
What I couldn't do on my own, however, was to drive a bargain like Yvonne could.
In one weekend, I had turned from being a small person in boring shoes who couldn't drive a bargain into a medium-sized person with fabulous shoes who could bargain with the best of them.
A visitor exaggerated when he reported that New Englanders could "neither drive a bargain, nor make a jest, without a text of Scripture at the end on it," but he was not far off.
"If they're trying to drive a bargain, more power to them," says Ardis Hammock, a local cane planter whose family has been selling cane to U.S. Sugar since the 1930s.
It is also a matter of negotiating tactics; the EU is in a better position to drive a bargain if Greece is operating under the existing bailout, Greece will be in a much stronger position if it is able to get money without conditions.
Jay Pritzker, the late Chicago financier, knew how to drive a bargain.
Its roots were partly from years before when the oil producing countries hiked up their prices and when the International Monetary Fund drove a bargain which demanded big cuts in public expenditure.
3. Patty Murray: In May, the Democratic senator from Washington urged colleagues who were thinking about cutting a deal with McConnell to drive a hard bargain.
