Sentence examples for instead of negotiations from inspiring English sources

Many others at Cancún, particularly midlevel developing countries, preferred pontificating instead of negotiations that included discussing their own reforms.

"It is a person tired of the way security and peace have been handled, a person who prefers the conflict option instead of negotiations that failed".

RAMALLAH, West Bank — President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said Monday that he was going to the United Nations this month to seek membership for a state of Palestine, not instead of negotiations with Israel, but in addition to them.

In essence, what the government has done by giving in to demands for a higher lobster quota is to "institutionalize blackmail, instead of negotiations, as a way of doing politics," said Ricardo Moreno, executive director of Fundacion Natura, an environmental group based in Quito, the Ecuadorean capital.

As a result, instead of negotiations, what we have here is a game of chicken.

The asymmetry of power between the two parties and the fact that Israel is the occupier with total control, while the Palestinian Authority is a dependency with no leverage means that instead of negotiations we will have Israel dictating terms which Palestinians can only accept or reject.

Instead of negotiation, Republicans cling to their strategy of extorting budget demands by threatening not to raise the debt ceiling.

Similarly, the ready availability of rights language may lead parties initially at odds with each other toward confrontation instead of negotiation, as each side escalates an arms-race of rights assertions that can only be resolved by a superior authority like a court.

The Lakers offered Andrew Bynum a lengthy contract extension instead of dragging negotiations into the season.

Such fundamental differences in perspective can be the catalyst for a hostile takeover battle instead of merger negotiations.

"Instead of conducting negotiations with moderate forces, with whom a settlement could be attained … [the government] undermines Abu Mazen's legitimacy".