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Or were they just being bankers, trying to squeeze more money out of the deal with some 11th-hour brinkmanship?

As domestically rewarding as it may be, brinkmanship over Davis imperils the long-term fortunes of Pakistan's government.

Brinkmanship is the creation and deployment of such a probabilistic threat .

As the brinkmanship played out in Washington, new data underscored the growing threat to the world's largest economy.

So if all this budgetary brinkmanship and political theater does lead to a shutdown, what will happen next?

But many uncertainties remain, including the intentions of a president noted for his wily brinkmanship.

Expect more destabilising brinkmanship, just like the sort that attended the debt-ceiling crisis in the summer.

A game of brinkmanship is now underway and Babel will hope he becomes a make weight in a deal between his employers and the Dutch side.

What follows will be an exercise in posturing and brinkmanship by mobile operators and internet companies as they jostle for advantage.

It was a clear case of political brinkmanship.

Chinese officials are understandably angry about the irresponsible brinkmanship demonstrated by their American counterparts in recent weeks.

And the official Xinhua news agency dismissed the negotiating process that produced the deal as "a madcap farce of brinkmanship. "

Regulators would be better informed and positioned to prevent the brinkmanship defining today's interventions.

Argumentative brinkmanship to secure themselves the biggest possible pay cheque plays to the core skills of their profession.

There is no gainsaying the fact that brinkmanship is a dangerous game .

Third, America's politicians are, once again, threatening to wreck the recovery with irresponsible fiscal brinkmanship.

The brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling is a prime example for the argument that democracy is irrational, right?

But Beijing appears equally furious at the brinkmanship of the power companies.

They have eased relations with Japan and, horrified by the nuclear brinkmanship of Kim Jong Il, mediated with Korea.

Any sign of Gulf brinkmanship therefore makes default more, rather than less, likely.

But as both sides grumbled, they tried to keep the brinkmanship within bounds.

"This is brinkmanship, " said one veteran attorney who asked not to be named.

But some of their policies are an exercise in greater brinkmanship than the cold war.

how to encourage this vile regime towards greater openness, while not rewarding it for nuclear brinkmanship.

North Korean Leader Chooses Successor Amid Signs of More Brinkmanship.

Meanwhile, the federal government has been willing to play financial brinkmanship with struggling state governments.

Of course, there's an argument for diplomatic brinkmanship.

Sudanese politicians are famous for their sometimes near-suicidal brinkmanship.

In spite of the brinkmanship, the parties endorsed a budget for 2011 without falling off the edge.

This dangerous political brinkmanship could also have a damaging effect by creating uncertainty.

The bulwark against populism could buckle if there is yet another round of brinkmanship and bargaining.

"Then they start to descend into brinkmanship. "

As Europe stands at the precipice, it is time to end brinkmanship and political squabbles.

Tehran's brinkmanship over its nuclear program reached new heights in 2010.

For Nigeria there are dangers in this brinkmanship.

BUDGET-MAKING in America is an exercise in brinkmanship.

It's a kind of brinkmanship.

The country's leaders at last ended a ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinkmanship

The euro may survive brinkmanship over Greece, but the road to recovery will be long and hard

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