Sentence examples for painful negotiation from inspiring English sources

This week, the unthinkable happened in Africa: the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies were forced into a painful negotiation over patent rights and the price of AIDS medicines.

On a drive for a rare visit to her family — her sister is getting married and, after painful negotiation, Zohara will attend — she is approached by a Bedouin Arab woman urgently seeking a ride.

[C3.] The Africa Problem for Drug Makers This week, the unthinkable happened in Africa: the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies were forced into a painful negotiation over patent rights and the price of AIDS medicines.

Every time I walked into a meeting, joined a rally or attended an event, I was making a painful negotiation: "Today I am only wearing my 'undocumented' hat".

On Monday, Greece's new finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, said it was important that Greece negotiate a new agreement with its foreign lenders to avoid the painful negotiations ahead of each installment of foreign aid.

"We reached this agreement after very long and painful negotiations," Mr. bin Karubi said.

Cyprus, including its occupied areas, acceded to the European Union after long and painful negotiations, having fulfilled all relevant conditions.

Shareholders seem set to lose everything and there will be painful negotiations with the holders of Parmalat's numerous bond issues.

Trying for a free trade deal doesn't give us more control, it just means years of painful negotiations and a poorer deal than we have today.

The rescue deal would end nearly two years of painful negotiations with debtholders, but will only pass if three-quarters of all shareholders and debtholders vote in favour.

In 1998, 160 states gathered in Rome to agree on the Statute of an international criminal court, the culmination of five decades of painful negotiations.