Sentence examples for powerful bargaining from inspiring English sources

Debt experts have long argued that this legal quirk gave a powerful bargaining advantage to Greece as it sought to pare down its debt.

The government knows that Ms Suu Kyi has the first and last word on lifting any sanctions, a powerful bargaining position.

With this new expanded raft of action, junior doctors may risk their solid base of public support and with that a powerful bargaining tool".

Yet it recognised that its most powerful bargaining chip, both home and abroad, was its ability to provide temporarily embarrassed rulers with the money they needed to pay their bills.

Though the organization operates on a consensus basis, the United States carries a powerful bargaining chip: it pays for almost all of the oil costs, which amounted to $86 million in the last fiscal year.

Evidenced last year, a strike threat alone is a very powerful bargaining chip.

What if they're too powerful?" 3. Bargaining: "Maybe if I work really hard I can overcome this and it won't matter".

Since then, there has been a slow, steady drop in both the number of executions and the number of people being given the death penalty — in part because the rapid growth of life-without-parole sentences has given prosecutors a powerful plea-bargaining tool.

For the first time, I had reason to notice that the priest was much heavier than I was and seemed a good deal more powerful into the bargain.

He held various offices with the powerful United Automobile Workers union, bargaining on contracts at a time when automation was a chief concern.

For the Royal Mail, the dispute is about modernisation and the union's bargaining power in a powerful but waning monopoly business.