Few artists have ever negotiated that squiggle in the sand quite as boldly as Creed.
So don't expect Janowicz to overthink the challenge of facing Andy Murray on Centre Court this afternoon, tennis territory no Polish male has ever negotiated.
Obama boasts that the Pacific deal will provide the best labor protections of any trade deal the United States has ever negotiated.
Meanwhile, the Swedish commissioner has plenty more on her plate: she wants to conclude a deal on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, better known as TTIP, the most controversial trade deal the EU has ever negotiated.
Pauline defends and bails out Tommy at every turn, while Jim takes Gregory's part, an alignment familiar to anyone who has ever negotiated his way through family life.
"I don't think the United States has ever negotiated a trade agreement with this kind of specificity," said Ira Wolf, a senior trade adviser to Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and certainly one of the few people outside the United States Trade Representative's office to have perused the eye-straining small print.
It was one of those sites you look at once and think, 'Oh, very good, but why am I here?'" Anyone who has ever negotiated the official site of an arena-scale rock band or micro-managed pop star will recognise Wheeler's description: behind the digital dazzle lie meagre, bland, corporate-branded pickings offering very little incentive to return.
No Republican has ever negotiated in good faith on this issue, period.
But Reagan stared back, during the longest silence that Secretary of State Shultz had ever experienced at a negotiating table.
Arriving in Europe to negotiate the peace, Wilson was greeted with an ecstasy no American president had ever matched, hailed as the savior of mankind.
