British Airways' brief flirtation with Qantas ended when they proved unable to agree terms for a merger – the Australian carrier wanted 55 per cent of the operation, rather than half, and is said to have insisted that the joint airline's HQ be in Sydney rather than London, the centre of world aviation.
Director of football Barry Fry, the man in charge of arranging Posh's transfer deals, has so far been unable to agree deals for either player .
The US government has been in partial shutdown since Congress missed a 1 October deadline to pass a budget, with politicians being unable to agree funding for current spending.
After Britain adopted a policy of no independence before majority rule in the early 1960s, the predominantly white minority government of the self-governing colony of Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, was unable to agree terms for full independence they deemed satisfactory.
Nearly half of women who had lumpectomies for breast cancer had second operations they may not have needed because surgeons have been unable to agree on guidelines for the most common operation for breast cancer, a new study finds.
The members of Mercosur, which is meant to be a customs union, were unable to agree on rules for importing goods from outside the block.
Government and guerrilla negotiators have been involved in the talks since January 1999, but the two sides have been unable to agree on terms for a ceasefire.
He said that when his lease ran out in 2007, he and the hotel's longtime manager and part-owner, Stanley Bard, were unable to agree to terms for a new lease.
The German bank, which had been in exclusive talks with Guggenheim since February, said the two sides were unable to agree on terms for the sale of RREEF, its real estate investment business.
