What the bank sought in return, its own e-mail messages show, was the Stern family's banking business.
At the EU-Turkey summit on Monday, the Turkish prime minister, Ahmed Davutoğlu, offered European leaders the illusory "quick fix'' they sought, in return for a number of concessions.
Nothing is known publicly about what Mr. Yousef might have wanted to tell the government, what he might have sought in return or whether his offer was even genuine.
And, in an interview with CNN to discuss the talks that July, he said that the Democrats were failing to agree to lower overall tax rates that Republicans were seeking in return for closing loopholes, which ultimately, he warned, would lead to tax increases.
Such a move seemed unlikely, since it might complicate passage of the tax package, which includes a provision that President Obama sought in return for backing the continuation of tax cuts for all income levels that Republicans wanted: an extension of unemployment benefits.
What North Korea is seeking in return was not entirely clear, but Mr. Putin suggested that it was not just launch services that would be provided by other nations, but foreign rocket boosters that would be brought to North Korea so that it could launch satellites into space.
The party has yet to say what it would seek in return for the support of however many MPs it returns to Westminster but in 2010 it said it would use any influence it had in a hung parliament to benefit the people of Northern Ireland and to counterbalance unionist demands.
He embraced the tenets of a Salafi revival movement that seeks in part to return to purifying principles derived from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, in the seventh century.
Does one want to give the N.S.A. the clarity it seeks, even in return for amnesty?
Family support is love that seeks nothing in return.
