He needs a crew that are capable of negotiating the coming storm and making the most of good weather.
And it doesn't involve any substantive concessions, save one: That if the Republicans were capable of negotiating like a functional political party, the president would be willing to talk.
Thus if Romney wants to push an aggressive agenda in his first hundred days or year in office, Ryan will be a natural point person — but if the Romney White House then needs to compromise well short of conservative objectives, Ryan will be capable of negotiating the deal and ready and willing to sell it to a reluctant base.
Netanyahu and Barak are capable of negotiating simultaneously with both Syria and the Palestinians.
Furthermore, not all women are capable of negotiating condom usage [5], and there are currently no effective female-controlled STI prevention methods.
Also the hierarchical health management system was capable of negotiating with line ministries and local governments, providing a basis for the development of a functioning rural health system, indicated by the key informants at national and local levels.
Even when databases make programmatic access to their data available (through application programming interfaces, or APIs), this makes systematic access to the data contained within the database challenging any software must be capable of negotiating database-specific features and implementations.
"It naïvely assumes," Justice Johnson wrote, "that the government is capable of correctly and consistently negotiating the thin line between fact and opinion in political speech".
Mr. Rhoden is capable of poetry.
Stephens is capable of winning this match.
