Sentence examples for tense bargaining from inspiring English sources
The tense bargaining, coming as executive branch agencies took precautionary steps in preparation for closing down after Friday, demonstrated how crucially both sides view the outcome of this budget fight in shaping the ground rules for larger struggles to come over fiscal issues.
But council members describe a tense bargaining period during which helped by pressure from the United Nations and the editorial pages of American newspapers they won the council its current powers.Council members may have fought for Iraqi sovereignty, but they were still appointed by the CPA, and will need to win themselves legitimacy as Iraq's representatives.
Warren Hoge (NYT) SPAIN: LEFTIST PACT After 10 days of tense bargaining, the opposition Socialists made a rare alliance with the smaller Communist-led United Left to campaign jointly for the Senate in the March 12 general elections, but not for seats in the lower house of Parliament, as the Socialists had also demanded.
In earlier interviews, the crew described how the captain remained on the bridge with the pirates, and how — in a way that remains unclear — he convinced them to accept a tense bargain: they would get their wounded compatriot from the engine room if they released the captain.
But even as the team celebrated its tremendous win, it was engaged in tense collective-bargaining-agreement negotiations with U.S. Soccer.
High-stakes negotiations aimed at finishing a treaty to curb global warming collapsed today after a tense all-night bargaining session foundered on last-minute disputes between European and American negotiators.
After 18 years of debate, two weeks of talks, and tense, last-minute bargaining, the meeting of the UN Convention on Biodiversity agreed on 20 key "strategic goals" to be implemented by 2020 that should help to end the current mass extinction of species.
Con Ed officials acknowledged that the bargaining was tense.
The Women's National Basketball Association and its players union signed a new collective bargaining agreement yesterday, ending a period of tense labor relations that nearly led to the season's cancellation.
