Long-standing negotiations with the Persians over the division of power in Armenia had resulted in a treaty that was to become the basis for a long period of peace on the eastern border.
Original: Time Warner Cable chief executive Glenn Britt and Viacom chief executive Philippe Dauman are both standing by as negotiations continue in a fee dispute that could result in MTV Networks being pulled from TWC at midnight.
"The DUP may now spin about standing tough in negotiations but the reality is that the party has publicly voiced support for 'limited immunity' which is an amnesty by another name and has consistently failed to the make the key issues which concern innocent victims the centrepiece of these talks.
As a result, the United States has a much better standing in negotiations over Iran's programme.
Its targets for reducing carbon emissions will help boost China's standing in climate-change negotiations.
First, by shoring up its standing with high-level negotiations in Washington and readmission to regional forums.
Osborne, an unemotional power broker, instinctively believes that Britain should remain in the EU on the grounds that membership enhances the UK's standing in trade and diplomatic negotiations.
Thomas A. Dunne, vice president for government affairs at Verizon, wrote in a letter to local officials across the Island that Verizon expected Cablevision to "use its lawsuit to launch a misinformation campaign in several municipalities aimed at bullying other communities into standing down on our franchise negotiations and delaying the opportunity for consumer choice".
The concept of 'roundtabling' emphasizes the fitting a variety of commodity-specific sustainability situations into a form that not only 'hears more voices' (as in 'multi-stakeholder'), but also portrays to give them equal standing at the table of negotiations (roundtable), thus raising higher expectations on accountability, transparency and inclusiveness.
Congress has been pressing to hit Iran with more sanctions -- moving toward a total trade embargo -- unless the Geneva meetings show that Tehran is ready to make concessions, after 10 years of standing its ground in previous negotiations.
If there was a hung parliament after the next general election, this would prove a much better basis for negotiation than Labour standing on its head having gone into a campaign with no position on electoral reform.
