Sentence examples for negotiating coalition from inspiring English sources

"This is not a negotiating coalition, this is a group of people who say we all share a view about an ambitious agreement – of course we do, we've said that from the outset... we're focusing on getting an agreement, not which groups we might be signing up to... our priority is the text," she told journalists.

France, as a presidential republic with a majority party in Parliament, has fewer domestic political problems than Germany, with its federal system and negotiated coalitions.

We did an outstanding job of negotiating the coalition: if you comb the coalition agreement you will see that 65% of our manifesto is in it.

Most senior Tories had expected to be negotiating another coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats, giving them the flexibility to raise taxes to fund their additional spending commitments.

He impressed senior Tories for his role in negotiating the coalition contract, which he drew up with the Tory manifesto chief, Oliver Letwin.

In negotiating a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats, the Tory leadership watered down its pledges to repatriate powers from the European Union.

Germany is to join them: its main parties, negotiating a coalition after September's election, agreed this week to require that supervisory boards be at least 30% female by 2016.

And in just those few days in which we were negotiating our coalition, Europe's finance ministers had an emergency meeting to staunch a crisis spreading beyond Greece to Spain and Portugal.

The resignations began Monday when Mr. Ecevit ordered Deputy Prime Minister Husamettin Ozkan to quit after rumors that Mr. Ozkan was negotiating with coalition partners to replace the prime minister.

We had a series of meetings when we were negotiating the coalition agreement, and I stood up and said, 'I really do not like these guys, I've spent my life fighting them.

As the party goes through a significant period of reorganisation, the role will be particularly crucial over the next couple of years (in the event of a hung parliament, the role will be even more important if the party ends up negotiating a coalition).