the negotiating table

Two key questions remain: how much more are the Chinese keeping back for the negotiating table, and what will make them disclose it?

If you are the least experienced person around the negotiating table, it's time to hire a great lawyer to help balance things out.

She says the White House is trying to get all the parties back to the negotiating table and end the bloodshed.

But privately, he is trying to mend fences with Washington and pull the Palestinians back to the negotiating table.

Refusing to return to the negotiating table, Pyongyang has also revoked all the concessions it had previously made.

EU President Van Rompuy said the purpose of international sanctions against Iran is to bring it back to the negotiating table.

European source said he hoped that the latest ruling would persuade Boeing to come to the negotiating table.

A return to the negotiating table would not be in the interest of the rival Palestinian militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip.

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says the only place to address such disagreements is at the negotiating table.

Mr. Netanyahu said peace can only be achieved through direct talks, and he urged the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.

I call on the president to return to the negotiating table with Iraq and lead from the front and not from weakness in Iraq and in the world.

First, he said, every opportunity is being afforded to Iran to return to the negotiating table.

If the fearsome terrorist on the other side of the negotiating table was a rugby fan, could he really be as bad as they thought?

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev urged the Palestinians to abandon the effort for statehood at the U. N. and return to the negotiating table.

On a recent visit to Berlin, George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, pleaded for such buy-backs to be on the negotiating table.

The concept of exhibiting a hard-power capability to bring somebody to the negotiating table is a classic cold war technique.

Absent a pledge by Israel to maintain the building moratorium, the Palestinians refused to come to the negotiating table.

The only upside is that if Microsoft is so committed to search, it may once again return to the negotiating table with Yahoo.

The youth movement takes pride in having no leaders, but it thereby finds itself without a voice at the negotiating table.

The negotiating table and attitude and implicit to any occasion, the euphemism than talking all is more important.

Critics, however, say that his rush to attract China's big spenders is giving Beijing the upper hand at the negotiating table.

Representatives from India, the United States and other WTO states reunited; committing to return, once again, to the negotiating table.

Peace can be achieved only around the negotiating table.

One banker recently described a pitch meeting with CIC in which a seconded colleague sat on the other side of the negotiating table.

The number of agents involved in the proposed transfer is another factor that has led the club to walk away from the negotiating table.

Many decisions were taken when the United States was not at the negotiating table.

Their stated aim is to force Hamas to accept Israel's right to exist and return the Palestinians to the negotiating table.

Some foreign policy experts in South Korea think the sanctions have forced Pyongyang to consider coming back to the negotiating table.

But the Palestinians are refusing to return to the negotiating table until Israel agrees to a settlement freeze.

However, if Fiorentina continue to refuse to do business , then Roma will return to the negotiating table with Chelsea for Malouda.

One area where Mr. Jobs's influence will be hard to replace is at the negotiating table.

With respect to North Korea, we continue to send the message that simply returning to the negotiating table is not enough.

President Bush is engaging in some personal diplomacy in an effort to halt the bloodshed and bring all parties to the negotiating table.

Bringing massive technical data to the negotiating table may only show down the deal-making process.

Or, when these prove too onerous or too difficult to cheat its way around, it kicks over the negotiating table and storms out.

Mubarak said Arab countries will support a peace process if Israelis and Palestinians return to the negotiating table.

Syria says it will not return to the negotiating table until Israel agrees in advance to withdraw from the Golan Heights.

Then, putting further litigation to one side, they should head for the negotiating table.

A secondary motive could be to get Washington back to the negotiating table.

Yesterday saw yet another effort to drag the unwilling parties back to the negotiating table.

China and India might well come more swiftly to the negotiating table if they faced the possibility of losing their export markets.

U. S. attempts to broker direct talks collapsed so badly last fall that Washington couldn't bring both sides back to the negotiating table.

That was the tactic before the talks, as the US and others sought to bring a wary Beijing to the negotiating table.

The answer "no" will give your counterparts an idea of what to expect at the negotiating table. Use it judiciously.

Presumably the bankruptcy filing will now help to concentrate minds at the negotiating table.

What can the Obama administration put on the negotiating table to extract concessions on currency and nonproliferation from Beijing?

The one-day closed-door meeting was expected to include discussions on new incentives for Iran to return to the negotiating table.

Although they missed the deadline, it spurred both of them back to the negotiating table.

In recent weeks, Brazil, Indonesia and South Korea have all slapped down hard figures on the negotiating table.

There's some evidence that Cook can be as tough at the negotiating table.

Goalkeeper Matteo Sereni has returned to the negotiating table over extending his stay with Lazio.

But no changes at the negotiating table reflected the cheap talk from the top.

The worsening situation soon forced him back to the negotiating table.

Now artificial intelligence software has taken a seat at the negotiating table.

Iran has been signaling that it wants to return to the negotiating table before year's end.

The negotiating table will increasingly be the arena for settling disputes.

Bad temper and walk outs from the negotiating table are guaranteed; but armed conflict is unlikely.

Wang also reiterated China's previous call for both sides to return to the negotiating table.

And it forced Carlyle and Xugong back to the negotiating table over the ministry's objections, the cable said.

After all, it is the negotiating table, not a game of hardball, that will bring progress.

'The purpose of sanctions is to bring the Iranian side to the negotiating table, ' Mr. Li told Reuters.

Resolution 1929 increases the pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear activities and come to the negotiating table.

Since then, SAG has been angling to beat its sister performers' union to the negotiating table.

The small groups returned to the negotiating table 11 hours after talks concluded at 3 a. m. Thursday.

We want to get all the parties back to the negotiating table.

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Though it is in stalemate now, I am confident that the parties will come back to the negotiating table.

Its best hope is that China can exert influence over Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table.

The Afghan government has struggled to bring insurgents to the negotiating table over the last year, with no apparent success.

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