The owners' hard-line demands helped generate an atmosphere of mistrust between the players and the league.
The two sides had swapped hard-line demands during a first round of talks in Beijing this month.
And American officials have made a point of urging the Kurds to back down from some of their more hard-line demands.
The deal now seems to hang on whether the Farc will accept tougher conditions for demobilisation, perhaps combined with a softening of Uribe's hard-line demands.
The group has also called for the Delta region to gain independence from Nigeria, reprising the hard-line demands of earlier insurgencies that had become much less common in recent years.
Or would he take a harder line, demanding that Europe step up to meet the challenges America has set?
The French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said before he left France that he hoped to persuade Mr Lavrov to accept the harder line demanded by the US, Britain and France after talks in Paris on Monday.
Publicly, the protest leaders, who claim to represent the prai, or lower-class Thais, are maintaining a hard line, demanding that Mr. Abhisit dissolve Parliament and call new elections.
The Europeans, with the Germans and the IMF taking a particularly hard line, demanded the winding up of Cyprus Popular Bank, the country's second biggest, and the restructuring of Bank of Cyprus, the biggest financial institution.
Separately, the hard-line immigration demands that Mr. Trump said he needs to back protections for young undocumented immigrants triggered a furious response from immigration activists.
Washington's brusque treatment of its northern neighbor over the past weeks of negotiations with Mexico reflects Trump officials' irritation with Canadian negotiators who dismissed as unserious several hard-line U.S. demands in the early months of the talks.
