Sentence examples for held to negotiate from inspiring English sources
Apparently held to negotiate the terms of his surrender, the meetings took place on Nem's turf in Rocinha, and were, according to the participants, conducted with a great deal of mutual respect.
But since then, experts say, the country has held to a negotiated plan to shut the missile program in exchange for energy supplies.
The proposal recommended a conference be held next year to negotiate "a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination".
Fighting was less fierce today after security forces and protesters held to a truce negotiated by Muslim clerics.
He wasn't holding out to negotiate his contract.
But they insist we should negotiate with a gun held to our heads.
Syriza MP Costas Lapavitsas said the ongoing debt talks were like "negotiating with a knife held to your throat".
Last month Father Paolo went to Raqqa, a city in northern Syria now held by jihadists, to negotiate an end to clashes with Kurdish rebels.
In November 1921, a conference was held in Geneva to negotiate a convention between Germany and Poland.
Working people who want decent health care and retirement security should fight for those benefits in their own workplace, not fall for the attack against the public employees who have managed to negotiate and hold onto them.
Her union has signaled increased flexibility after Mr. Bloomberg had talked repeatedly about the need to hold down spending, to negotiate more efficient work rules and to cut agency budgets by 5percentto20percentcent.
