The barons resisted it, partly from pride, but also because synergy often made no sense: the long-term success of Warner Bros relies on making good films and keeping Mr Eastwood happy, not on subsidising sister cable channels.It will require all Mr Heyer's calm logic, not to mention Mr Turner's somewhat harsher negotiating techniques, to persuade the barons to co-operate.
Washington has adopted a wait-and-see position on China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative, proposed harsh conditions in negotiating the Bilateral Investment Treaty, and imposed barriers to exporting high-tech products to China.
Uribe, who is constitutionally barred from running, has become Santos' harshest critic for negotiating with the Farc.
The leaked testimony prompted Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, to warn that if Major League Baseball did not act quickly in negotiating harsher steroids testing, Congress would intervene.
Mr. Emanuel — who has spent plenty of time working behind the scenes for other politicians, including Mayor Daley and President Bill Clinton — has long been known for his tough-guy methods of negotiating, his harsh, blunt retorts, and his use of four-letter words.
Sea birds double as metaphor and main course in this earnest first novel, based on the real-life tribulations of an early-19th-century minister named Neil MacKenzie and his wife, Elizabeth, as they negotiate the harsh demands of a posting in the most remote part of the British Isles, the St. Kilda archipelago.
He really enjoys when his boss tells him he negotiated great, harsh terms.
Many hoped that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ― vindicated by his success at the negotiating table ― would leverage his political capital and ease Iran's harsh security environment at home.
Israel is currently negotiating indirectly with Hamas for the release of a seized soldier and is also trying to improve its international image after harsh criticism of its conduct in Gaza last January.
