Sentence examples for walkaway from inspiring English sources

A public walkaway, with its overtones of Waterloo or Gallipoli, would make them more human, I think, and perhaps make us think more often about the cruel difficulty of this game and its regularly arriving amazements.

If a bidding war ensues, buyers will need to have a "walkaway number," Mr. Kromer said.

For some of his members, the "walkaway value" in any negotiations was basically no deal at all, because they had promised to never vote to raise the debt ceiling, period, full stop, or to vote for any deal that funded Obamacare.

For a larger number, the "walkaway value" was the one-year delay of Obamacare; for a still larger number, motivated more by caution rather than ideology, the "walkaway value" was any deal that could be attacked as a sell-out by the pro-defund caucus, which is to say basically any deal that didn't … delay or defund Obamacare.

The term "walkaway," though, does not exist in state law.

When you are negotiating on behalf of other people, you cannot walk into a negotiation without knowing their walkaway value … A great example of the need for this pre-negotiation knowledge was presented during a negotiations seminar I attended while in business school (this particular seminar was just a small portion of a semester-long class).

These "walkaways" either choose to walk away from their homes because it makes sense to them in a financial, business-sense, or they are forced into foreclosure because of hard economic times, bad loans, and inability or unwillingness on the lender's behalf to work out alternative options.

"To focus on walkaways from halfway houses would be to report on only part of the story and not include the positive outcomes for the majority of offenders who complete a halfway house program without walking away," the company said in a statement.

After the interview, the Corrections Department emphasized that inmates who fled halfway houses should be referred to as "walkaways" to distinguish them from inmates who escape prisons.

On Monday, Mr. Christie said such measures had already led to "a dramatic decrease in the number of walkaways under this administration," referring to escapes from halfway houses.

The runaways are called walkaways.