In California, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris had played hardball in the settlement negotiations, holding out until the very end for a deal guaranteeing that a large share of the benefits would go to California, and then trumpeting her success in a news conference and a flurry of interviews with national news outlets.
King drew out negotiations until Greenfield returned to Alberta empty-handed; soon after, Greenfield was forced from office by his own backbenchers, and replaced by Brownlee.
His preferred method has been (a) to give in silently and let the issue trail off; or (b) make an announcement of temporary surrender in the foreseeable future; or (c) string out negotiations until the farthest-out solution seems a possible but clearly dangerous option, and his own ratification of centrist conventional wisdom appears the result of profound reflection.
Those negotiations stretched out but never went anywhere.
Northern Alliance leaders said they would wait at least until the end of the week for the negotiations to play out; after that, they said, they would be ready to attack.
He was Tsipras's close comrade in the bailout negotiations until he was frozen out by his European counterparts.
Nothing has been ruled in or out and they are determined not to start negotiations until after the conference season in the autumn, with September's Scottish referendum remaining the focus after the European and local authority elections this month.
Today, a senior State Department official, briefing reporters here, said that although Washington would not enter into negotiations with North Korea until it took action to dismantle its nuclear facilities, contacts of a lesser sort were not being ruled out.
Legislators kept a tight lid on the closed-door negotiations, waiting until 9 December to unveil what turned out to be the final version.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood firm on Tuesday and ruled out negotiations with the Greek government until Greeks head to the polls to vote on the bailout proposal in a referendum scheduled for Sunday.
