Sentence examples for postponed negotiations from inspiring English sources

The decision to label all armed Palestinian groups "terrorists" postponed negotiations with the P.L.O. by 15 critical years, during which time the Lebanese civil war and the intifada helped spawn more militant groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.

"If the conclusion of an F.T.A. with Mexico is postponed, negotiations with other countries or with Asean will not progress either," Yomiuri Shimbun warned in an editorial last week, referring to the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

A Chinese government white paper released two weeks ago said that China could attack Taiwan if the island nation -- the refuge of the Chinese Nationalists after the Communists won control of the mainland in 1949 -- indefinitely postponed negotiations.

As an indirect consequence of the vote, held on 9 February, the European Union has postponed negotiations to include Switzerland as an associated country to Horizon 2020, the bloc's research and innovation program, and to the higher education program Erasmus+, which both run from 2014 through 2020.

Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders, currently in talks over next year's budget, postponed negotiations over how to spend more than $1 billion raised by fees on polluters.

On Monday, however, Germany suggested a compromise that would postpone negotiations until the fall.

The United States is postponing negotiations for a free-trade deal with the European Union because of the government shutdown, the Obama administration said Friday.

The other risk is that by postponing negotiations on E.U. membership, reformers in the region will be weakened in their attempts to build more democratic structures.

But ultimately, if developing countries are not convinced that such agreements will bring development benefits, they can postpone negotiations on any or all of them.

President Michel Suleiman's decision on Monday to postpone negotiations to form a new government appeared to signal the difficulties that Lebanon's politicians face in choosing a new prime minister.

On the return of the German envoy at 12 00, Schmidt had already sent a radio message that the bombardment had to be postponed because negotiations had started.