Sentence examples for negotiations declined from inspiring English sources

A Health Ministry official involved in the negotiations declined through a spokesman to talk by telephone.

But Duncan Smith, who is a member of the cabinet sub-committee overseeing the EU negotiations, declined to rule out opposing the deal secured by the prime minister.

The official, who asked not to be named because of the delicacy of the negotiations, declined to specify the options and said nothing had yet been decided.

Representatives from the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which led banking regulators in the negotiations, declined to provide further details on the settlement.

"I'm dumbfounded," said a top American Federation of Teachers AFTT) official involved in the negotiations, declining to publicly identify himself.

Lythgoe said his own contract is under negotiation, declining to comment further.

The two sides failed to agree on a price for the brand, which analysts had valued at about $3 billion, said a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations, who declined to be identified discussing private talks.

Saskatchewan has asked BHP to make a 1 billion Canadian dollar payment to the province, an unusual request for a Canadian government, according to people familiar with the negotiations who declined to be named because the talks are private.

People close to the negotiations, who declined to be identified because the talks were continuing, said that a deal had been reached in principle to buy out his daughter's interest in CBS and Viacom.

Barclays, which rejected government money on Monday for the second time in the last six months, could reach an agreement as early as the end of this week to sell its exchange-traded funds business for about $4.3 billion, said a person with direct knowledge of the negotiations who declined to be identified because the talks were private.

"It's like buying a used car," said one person involved with the negotiations, who declined to be named.