Sentence examples for tense negotiation from inspiring English sources

Sometimes it's a "cold war," sometimes a spectacular conflagration, and sometimes a tense negotiation in which both sides have the right to retreat from the negotiating table (provided that they are willing, too, to lose the public's trust in doing so).

— Julia Moskin Poetry Foundation: A poem by Jennifer Tonge about a tense negotiation involving a bed and a peach.

Mallarmé's tense negotiation with Wagner indicates the degree to which artistic genres can spur each other onward.

After a tense negotiation, we handed over $50 — to pay for the goats — and fled, putting a premature end to our visit.

Thanks to its unfortunate location, on a bleak corner between neighborhoods, there is no wait for a table, no tense negotiation with the hostess.

(In a recent episode, another agent told Gold, during a tense negotiation, "I'll fuck Nikki Finke before I let her affect my business decisions").

There were tense negotiations.

It took tense negotiations, but it passed in the end.

Billups was closer than most to the tense negotiations between the owners and players.

In four days of tense negotiations, the auditors pushed hard for cutting the bureaucracy.

Tense negotiations began shortly after noon on Thursday at the Caltrans building in Oakland.