Sentence examples for weak negotiating position from inspiring English sources

All that puts ministers in a very weak negotiating position - and the lobbyists know it.

Despite its relatively weak negotiating position, the music industry does have a wild card.

"They have such a weak negotiating position with the United States," Ms. Birdsall said.

"It was a strategic mistake that put them in this place," he said, but added that Diageo had been smart to wait to buy United Spirits until Mr. Mallya was in a relatively weak negotiating position.

But America's Securities and Exchange Commission is "in an exceptionally weak negotiating position, as American investors are increasingly going abroad to invest," he notes.In any case, regulators seem determined to prevent a single global trading platform with natural-monopoly power, says Mr Cappon.

"When you don't have the ability to regulate in your armamentarium, you are in a very weak negotiating position," she says.

Now that the sequester has taken effect, many of those gloomy promises have not come true, or they have been debunked altogether, leading some Democrats to publicly fret about the Administration overplaying its hand and forcing itself into a weaker negotiating position.

While companies like Netflix and Alphabet have negotiated with the ISPs for years, the combination of these two news stories puts them in a significantly weaker negotiating position going forward.

But that deal is now in doubt as falling prices have left Congo in a much weaker negotiating position.

Most entrepreneurs don't give themselves enough time for this process and end up running low on funds and so finding themselves in a much weaker negotiating position.

US officials have been clear that they will be in no hurry to conclude bilateral deals with the UK if we leave the EU and seek our own arrangements from what will, inevitably, be a far weaker negotiating position.