Sentence examples for tense negotiating from inspiring English sources

What a way to blow off the steam from all that tense negotiating.

I was in a tense negotiating session with a blockhead adversary when my cellphone rang.

The long, tense negotiating session at a Midtown Manhattan hotel that began Wednesday was the turning point when optimism for a season-saving settlement turned to rancor.

Separated by a few plane flights and a tense negotiating chasm, the N.F.L. and its locked-out officials watched the first full slate of preseason games over the weekend.

The high-stress, tense negotiating sessions and tight timetables of Dan's job are not well suited to his ongoing recovery, and the CEO would most likely have to relieve him of those responsibilities for a period of time.

After some tense negotiating (2002's range in price from about $300 for a car with rusted parts to $10,000 for a perfectly maintained small-bumper tii housed on the East Coast) and a solemn cup of coffee with Doug in a nearby diner, I agreed to the dealer's final offer.

We spent a tense day negotiating an all-party desirable result: we plan to monitor conditions as the deadline approaches, but will call a halt to works if necessary.

A former commercial pilot who now works as a real estate agent, he often acted as the family's mediator, negotiating tense moments with the calm of a man who has landed planes in stormy conditions.

In 2011, after a tense standoff while negotiating over raising the debt limit, Obama vowed never to do that again.

The agreement comes after months of tense negotiations and comes as Justice Department continues to negotiate a similar settlement with rial Bank of America.

Here, the South African director Gavin Hood assembles an A-list ensemble cast (including Alan Rickman in his last on-screen role) for a provocatively tense thriller that negotiates the moral minefields of its thorny subject matter in crowd-pleasing fashion.