If it's still non-negotiable, ask 'well, what would make it negotiable?'" Initially, the biggest challenge for Turner was finding someone to make his socks.
That was China's basic logic: to make them negotiable," said Jin Canrong, a foreign policy scholar at Renmin University.
But nor is it wise to make everything negotiable: Lula might come to regret an offer to talk to governors about another financial bailout—something that Mr Cardoso's fiscal-responsibility law supposedly banished.
If Emanuel's philosophy is to put points on the board, to take what you can get and then cut a deal, to make everything negotiable except success, then the White House is testing the limits of Rahmism.
"Irony is my visual language, and some people feel it can not be combined with Auschwitz, even tough I believe irony can be a way to make matters negotiable.
The term "transaction account" means a deposit or account on which the depositor or account holder is permitted to make withdrawals by negotiable or transferable instrument, payment orders of withdrawal, telephone transfers, or other similar items for the purpose of making payments or transfers to third persons or others.
In economically volatile and coalition-prone times, you need to make clear how negotiable a policy is and how prone to circumstances.
As we've noted before, the market-driven Republican Party wants to make reality itself negotiable.
This clause in the coalition agreement was made non-negotiable.
As metaphor, though, the disease model works: addiction makes non-negotiable demands, as any illness does; the addict must face the fact that he can't bargain with alcoholism any more than he can bargain with cancer.
Removing the ability to consider Pietersen for selection this summer – a stance that has been made non-negotiable by the England and Wales Cricket Board – and the early call on Cook continuing in the Test role certainly makes the job a harder sell for Strauss, and he must persuade applicants they will still have a say in future big decisions.
