Sentence examples for negotiating gesture from inspiring English sources

Reinsdorf recalled a negotiating gesture made by Tom Seaver after the 1984 season, when he won 15 games at age 39. "He wanted a three-year contract, and I was concerned that he was too old," Reinsdorf said.

The French and Americans presumed in advance that their new proposal of incentives — a negotiated gesture to Russia and China for their support of earlier Security Council sanctions — would be brushed aside by Tehran, officials and diplomats said, insisting on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The government has also made some gestures toward negotiating an end to a destructive civil war with Christians and African traditionalists in the south who have refused to accept the Islamic government.

This doesn't mean that you can negotiate with the gesture, really.

In his autobiography from 2005, "Between Worlds," Mr. Richardson recalled negotiating with Saddam Hussein in 1995 and, in a gesture of good will, touching President Hussein's arm.

Union officials, who are negotiating a contract with the city, have said the gestures were made out of frustration with the mayor.

The announcement, made from Cuba, where the rebel group has been negotiating with the Colombian government, was seen as a good-will gesture for Christmas that could further peace talks.

Born in 1940, she absorbed the masculine gestures of various father figures and began tentatively negotiating her self-presentation in the face of discrimination and shame.

The pitfalls of relying on the negotiating record are underscored by the fact that Baron van Boetzelaer's remarks almost certainly represent, in the words of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a mere "parliamentary gesture by a delegate whose views did not prevail upon the negotiating conference as a whole" (emphasis in original).

In a gesture to those who had encouraged him to remain in the accord, Trump said he was open to negotiating a new climate deal that, in his assessment, would be more fair to U.S. interests.

Busy negotiating.