Sentence examples for negotiating directly from inspiring English sources

Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders are negotiating directly with one another.

The South Korean government wants to avoid setting a precedent of negotiating directly with pirates.

This month, the idea of negotiating directly with Taliban leaders surfaced again.

Ms Merkel's reaction was to bypass the E.U. institutions, negotiating directly with France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Yet the state is prohibited from negotiating directly with pharmaceutical companies, wholesalers or pharmacy chains.

More recently, several big drug makers began negotiating directly with officials in the Department of Health.

We have got to be negotiating directly with the commission and explain what we are doing".

Apple is said to be negotiating directly with the music groups because it wants more extensive licensing terms.

Companies have, however, found their own solutions by negotiating directly with their works councils, essentially committees of worker representatives.

Chen Wenqing, the livestock firm's owner, said Country Garden was negotiating directly with the local authorities last spring when the deal fell through over a difference on price.

Finally, BP is negotiating directly with Gazprom to realize an international cooperation agreement signed last year as a condition of retaining some stake in the Siberian gas field.