Sentence examples for negotiating posture from inspiring English sources

In short, he thinks the Republicans are beaten, and so will change their negotiating posture.

It was weak as a negotiating posture, and inadequate as an expression of America's views about fair elections and the right to peaceful protest.

The White House's stated refusal to consider the platinum coin has been described as a capitulation by some liberals, but it is actually the more aggressive negotiating posture.

It does signal that the Mets are continuing their off-season negotiating posture, which, for the most part, has not been an aggressive one.

The proposal -- like Reagan's free-trade proposals -- was regarded skeptically, as a rhetorical gambit or a negotiating posture, and it may prove to be nothing more.

Mark Neaman, Evanston's chief executive, had told his board that the deal would "increase our leverage, limited as it might be," the investigation found, and "help our negotiating posture" with managed care organizations.

This posture of neutrality was thought necessary to keep a Europhobic Tory insurrection at bay and to avoid compromising Britain's negotiating position in Brussels.

Universal appears to have powerful leverage, making its demands more than just the usual negotiating posturing.

Yves Smith is more caustic: It is hard to come up with words that are strong enough to describe what an appalling display of misguided ego, inept negotiating postures, bad policy thinking, and utter disregard for the public interest are on display in this fiasco.

Earlier in the day news started filtering out that the G-77 bloc of developing countries, which had entered the conference with one of the toughest negotiating postures, abruptly dropped most of its steep demands and was effectively sold down the river by Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, after a suspiciously timed meeting with President Sarkozy of France.

As negotiating and posturing over the looming "fiscal cliff" continues, one phrase we hear less often than we should is "nondefense discretionary spending".