Sentence examples for negotiators leverage from inspiring English sources

The administration is seeking to start a worldwide round of trade negotiations at a summit meeting in Doha, Qatar, in November and has argued that new trade powers would give American negotiators leverage to cut a better deal.

The reprieve gives United States trade negotiators some leverage to avoid a head-on collision with Europe in a potentially far more costly trade dispute over tax breaks Washington gives American exporters.

Due to the failure of Nazi troops in Berlin and elsewhere, Dönitz and his fellow negotiators lost any leverage in asking for certain conditions in regard to the surrender.

Sanctions on oil which will cost Iran $30 billion over the same period remain firmly in place, providing a lot of leverage as negotiators start work on a final deal.

At several pivotal moments, American officials like Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Under Secretary of State Ellen O. Tauscher; Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller; and Michael McFaul, the president's Russia adviser, used the need to win Senate approval to leverage Russian negotiators into making concessions.

"I have to intuit what he's trying to say there," said Scott, "but my guess is that he thinks that somehow he as a person, as a negotiator, could have more leverage dealing one-on-one with individual countries and could get more out of them than if he had to deal with 11 countries at once".

Since India is running short of uranium for all its reactors, America's negotiators ought to have had leverage.

Mina said negotiators didn't have much leverage with the gunman.

To increase Greece's leverage, the country's negotiators have said they could attach collective action clauses to the outstanding bonds, a step that would give them the legal right to saddle all bondholders with a loss.

Wendy Sherman, the chief negotiator for the United States, characterized her latest encounters with the Iranians, as the talks collapsed, this way: "It was all 'We need sanctions relief and let's see how little we can do to get it.' " Iran had little leverage when Mr. Rowhani left his post as nuclear negotiator.

Negotiators often base their decisions on heuristic strategies or on oversimplifying rules, which allow them to generate leverage effects within the decision accuracy-benefit trade-offs [24].