Sentence examples for unproductive talks from inspiring English sources

The county defaulted on the debt in 2008 and has since been in acrimonious and mostly unproductive talks with creditors about what to do next.

It has been hosting what appear to be unproductive talks among legislative leaders; Vice President Joseph Biden Jr., who is nominally in charge of the talks, is now visiting Eastern Europe and tried to mediate by telephone.

STV's success in landing the first debate embarrassed BBC executives, who had been in protracted but unproductive talks as both sides wrangled over the timing, location and date of the event.

After 18 months of largely unproductive talks between the Europeans and the Iranians, the London meeting was billed as a last-ditch attempt to persuade Iran to compromise before a meeting of a six-nation group, including the United States.

Do I know for a fact that when, say, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton goes behind closed doors for yet another round of unproductive talks with some Middle Eastern leader, they're actually watching videos of "Maru the Cat" push a cardboard box around?

Over the past months, my deputy, Robert C. Frasure, who carried the additional title of the President's special envoy for Bosnia, had spent many hours with Milosevic in unproductive talks... Our first meeting with the Serbian leader, on August 17th, lasted 5 hours and produced no indication that he had changed any of his positions.

The Hawaii State Teachers Associationn, which represents the public school teachers, last met with a federal mediator and a state negotiator on Monday, but both parties called the talks unproductive.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called the talks "unproductive".

Christopher A. Viehbacher, Sanofi's chief executive, said on Monday that while he had met with Henri A. Termeer, his counterpart at Genzyme, for several hours last month, the talks proved unproductive.

Given how unproductive and unwieldy the talks have been, some experts say that the best approach would be to have one-on-one negotiations between the United States and Iran.

Fully ending this tragedy will require a comprehensive political solution that now seems remote, as underscored by a wholly unproductive round of peace talks about to be concluded in Geneva.