They have refused to negotiate over the Senate's budget, they have refused to negotiate over the president's budget, and they have refused to negotiate to make the health law more efficient, insisting only on its demise.
City have already signed Raheem Sterling, Fabian Delph and Patrick Roberts and are still negotiating to make Kevin de Bruyne of Wolfsburg a possible club record transfer.
Leery of trading their best prospect to get Rondell White from the Montreal Expos, the Yankees are negotiating to make a deal for B. J. Surhoff, Baltimore's veteran left fielder.
More recently, Thomas was too guarded and coy and should have left last year because of the conflict in owning the Continental Basketball Association while negotiating to make it the N.B.A.'s minor league.
"We had to do a bit of negotiating to make sure that the move was viable and we pulled in a couple of favours.
Humphreys, who is also on the Football Association's commission to improve the England set-up, knows all about the narrowing path that youngsters must negotiate to make it as professionals and he admits it is a "concern" for the union.
He added, "I can say that we have done a great deal of negotiating to get key modifications made to the progress report system".
For years, states have negotiated unsuccessfully to make the treaty more rigorous.
I felt that both suitors would treat my employees well (and I negotiated hard to make sure that was the case), and both offered a good asking price well above our value on NASDAQ.
So SkyMall negotiated deals to make it the exclusive in-flight catalog partner for numerous airlines.
