I knew the difficulties of getting somewhere to live, negotiating the housing system, the benefits system, and the prejudices you can face.
In the open-ended responses, prospective co-parents explained that contact and living arrangements will be negotiated with each other, and that these may change as the child grows older.
School aid is always the last and most contentious part of the budget to be negotiated, and legislators live and die politically on the results.
Common sense held that over time all beings would find their way to dust and that dust itself formed a barrier between the visible and the invisible that could not be negotiated by the living.
At all turns, the action both grounds and complicates the play as it exists on paper — as if it were a living thing, still to be negotiated and contested.
The resettlement of about 3,000 people living in the area would also need to be negotiated.
So for now, Myanmar's people struggle with their daily lives, negotiating the labyrinth of power and money.
Macfarlane presents himself as a student in the ways of the land, taking lessons from those who have spent their lives negotiating particular kinds of path.
The United Nations is such an elite space and I realized there are people who have spent their whole lives negotiating in United Nations sessions.
Because of the stigma around LGBT people, many members of the community spend their lives negotiating their own identities in an environment where role models and support is scarce.
