Sentence examples for stage of discussions from inspiring English sources

Anybody who has watched it unfold would not conclude that, if today turns out to stay at a very early stage of discussions, it's an abject failure.

"I think it is going to be approved, but we never got to the stage of discussions," said Nelson Ndirangu of the Kenya delegation.

Shares in the mortgage lender soared by more than 50% this morning after it revealed that it is "at an advanced stage of discussions" over the offer.

A source close to the BBC Trust said today that the strategic review is still "at the stage of discussions", and that no one at the corporation knows exactly what the outcome will be on services and spending priorities, because this has not been agreed.

Image caption The MPs say the bin workers "deserve justice on pay" In the letter, the MPs condemn "the apparent refusal by the council to answer straight questions on equal pay" and also the "inexplicable" proposal to exclude conciliatory service Acas from the next stage of discussions.

However, Entergy is believed to be seeking -- at least in its initial stage of discussions -- wage cuts and increased employee contributions to health care.

We sense that things have moved past the stage of discussion or debate — even staged discussion and debate.

"It still seems that some things are in a fairly preliminary stage of discussion," said Joyce Chang, head of emerging-markets research at J. P. Morgan Securities.

Earlier this week, Cambridge University made the rare move of responding directly to national media reports, making it clear it was at a "very early stage" of discussion, and "changes will not lead to any one author being dropped in favour of others – that is not the way the system works.

"These are in the very preliminary stages of discussions," the NATO official said.

The NATO official said: "These are in the very preliminary stages of discussions.