Sentence examples for outset of negotiations from inspiring English sources

In his statement on Monday, Mr. Putin said Russia was prepared "to consider even lower levels" than the 1,500 warheads presented by its negotiators in Geneva earlier this year at the outset of negotiations for a Start III agreement.

Were he to meet Mr Netanyahu's Jewish-state demand at the outset of negotiations, he would lose what support he still has among his own people.

The union says the clubs, at the outset of negotiations, identified three elements needed to get a new labor agreement -- increased sharing of local revenue, a tax on the highest payrolls and a worldwide draft.

We have made this clear from the outset of the negotiations".

The report recommends ministers safeguard the residence rights of UK nationals in other EU states at the outset of Brexit negotiations through a separate preliminary agreement.

The BBC realised at the outset of the negotiations, following the decision of the Six Nations committee to approach pay-television companies and publicly warn the corporation that it would need to pay substantially more to retain the broadcasting rights, that it would no longer be able to go it alone.

Mr. Obama's advisers say the chances of Iran's agreeing to that at the outset of a negotiation are zero.

He won the allegiance of Cardinals players by making fair offers from the outset of player-contract negotiations and creating an in-stadium babysitting service so players' wives could attend games.

The hope is that by starting out too high, the jury will come back with more than acquittal, similar to a union leader insisting on unreasonably high salary increases at the outset of a labor negotiation, then compromising.

Still, reaction to the American gambit was mixed, with many leaders in Europe expressing disappointment that Mr. Obama planned only a brief appearance near the outset of the two-week negotiations in Copenhagen and that the planned emissions reductions were, by most measures, rather modest.

Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas's spokesman in Gaza, said that at the outset of "five years of difficult negotiations" Israel had demanded the release of Shalit with "no price," offering only to ease the blockade on Gaza.