If the point of a divorce settlement is to take inventory of a couple's joint life and divide the assets, then that commodity belongs on the negotiating table — alongside vacation time-shares and projected earnings from his and her M.B.A.'s.
Mr Clinton and his men rightly see that, under these conditions, a triangular negotiating table is no place for them to be.
It was Chad's recent thawing with Sudan, also a result of focused international attention, including Washington's, that nudged the rebels toward the negotiating table.
Nations like the US, China, and Australia have been slow to or downright absent from the negotiating table, for fear that cutting coal, oil, and gas pollution would hurt their economies.
Doesn't that earn them the right to have a voice, an amplified one at that, at every negotiating table?
Márquez was emphatic that the negotiating table was "not a space to resolve the situation of a few guerrillas … it is a space to resolve the problems of the whole of society".
Who do you think got Europe to agree to sanctions on Iran, which brought that country to the negotiating table?
Opinions are deeply divided between three of the countries that sat around the negotiating table, research by YouGov has found.
We voted against it because... peace must come from hard compromises that occur at the negotiating table," the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said.
I like the idea, but not the art: cinema cameras produce a different kind of reality to old, scratched newsreels, a "negotiating table" that somehow doesn't work.
