Sentence examples for intent to negotiate from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday Sharif backtracked from a planned army offensive, explaining: "Since the other side has shown intent to negotiate, we also wish to give peace another chance".

The officials also said that Mr. Saleh was uncomfortable with Mr. Karzai's insistence that some Taliban members should be released from detention as a signal of the government's intent to negotiate and reach out to the insurgents.

"At the time" -- in the 1960s, as the NPT was being negotiated -- "there was intent to negotiate nuclear disarmament," Ashton said.

Each of the presidents gave his approval to ZAPU's participation in direct talks, and with their blessing Nkomo and Smith signed a declaration of intent to negotiate on 1 December 1975.

The Obama administration seems intent on trying to negotiate a deal with Russia in Syria.

It is unlikely that the Indian foreign minister would have said so unless he has at the least an inkling of the Karzai government's intent and capability to negotiate deals with forces that are fighting the government and international forces in Afghanistan.

"My intent is to try to negotiate with the central government a legal framework in order to organise, to hold a referendum, next year in Catalonia," he said.

The Israelis are still intent on giving him none: hence their refusal to negotiate "under fire".

They're like a pod of zombies: already dead yet still lurching about, intent on eating up the surrounding community, impossible to negotiate with except by means of a baseball bat.

Unwilling to compromise, and therefore unable to negotiate, they behave like a campaigning organisation intent not on holding office to exercise power but seeking office purely to make a statement.

There is no point at all in trying to negotiate with these people: they are deranged fanatics intent only on spreading terror and bloodshed across the land.