Sentence examples for had been bargaining from inspiring English sources

The net effect of these two opposing forces could well be a decrease in total European aggregate demand — not what the Americans had been bargaining for in London.

It had been bargaining with the county for months and reached an impasse over staffing issues, with nurses contending that they were being forced to violate state limits on patient-to-nurse ratios and that an inadequate number of nurses at county facilities was jeopardizing patient safety.

People gave up wage benefits that had been bargained for".

Ladye Clay, who had been bargain-hunting almost every day since the closure was announced, told me that she would have to "rearrange some things" in her weekly routine.

IT IS, one imagines, every sex-tourist's nightmare: the go-go bar, the tuk-tuk, the hotel room and then...the discovery that there is rather more to the lovely lady than had been bargained for.

Wanting his son to learn something useful, Strepsiades, Pheidippides' father, packs him off to the Phrontisterion ("thinking factory") where the young student learns a bit more than had been bargained for from the resident teacher, Socrates.

Instead, major trading nations have been bargaining over deals at the regional and bilateral levels.

Both are understood to have been bargaining chips to sweeten the arrangement.

The Russians have been bargaining for entry longer than any country ever, including China, which was admitted in 2001.

Drivers have been bargaining that rate down to $700 or $725, he says; others are defecting to services like Uber.

Major League Baseball cannot do much more than watch a dispute that has both sides telling the Federal Communications Commission that the other guy has been bargaining in bad faith.