He has built his whole political persona on being unyielding in such negotiations.
Each said the other had disregarded federal regulations and proved unyielding in te negotiations, which began late last year.
Diplomats who dealt with Mr. Kuznetsov reported that he was a master of mixing outward cordiality with unyielding toughness in negotiations.
But he also was expert at the slow, deliberate, detailed and unyielding Soviet style of negotiation, in which the aim is to draw out the adversary's position without revealing your own.
Some Republicans complain that Lew has been unyielding in past fiscal negotiations.
He spares no one, not even himself, in describing the fruitless haggling and frail compromises that marked his negotiations with the unyielding accountants and their lobbyists.
While some of the back-and-forth between the House and Senate and the party leaders was typical of the late stages of a negotiation, the combative and unyielding tone in both chambers of Congress was creating more pessimism in the rank and file about the prospects that a final agreement could be struck and cleared before Tuesday.
The above examples of frustrated attempts to normalize relations with Communist Cuba reflect a pattern of deception on the part of Castro and his politburo eager to obtain U.S. concessions without liberalizing the regime, feigning a desire to settle differences with the U.S., yet always scuttling negotiations and resuming their unyielding and contagious anti-Yankee defiance.
It seems likely that Mr. Rouhani, with his benign demeanor, seductive tone and more "moderate" message, will be more focused, serious and skillful in negotiations than Mr. Ahmadinejad, but still unyielding in Iran's core demand to retain significant nuclear capability.
Although the tariffs are among the main obstacles to smoother negotiations with Brazil, Florida's agricultural companies appear to be unyielding in their resistance to the agreement.
In the peace negotiations between Austria and France that were begun at Rastatt, Germany, Prince Eugene showed himself an unyielding and successful agent of Habsburg interests (see Rastatt and Baden, treaties of).
