Sentences with phrase «seek arms deal»

A version of this article appears in print on September 20, 2015, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. and China Seek Arms Deal for Cyberspace.

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RBS had also contemplated seeking to keep Henry Bath as a merchant deal after buying into the Sempra Commodities business in 2008, but ultimately decided that it would be better to divest Henry Bath than hold it at arm's length, according to a person familiar with the decision.

They included the publicly traded arms of Fosun International, which in recent years bought the Club Med chain of resorts and other properties; Dalian Wanda, which owns the AMC Theaters chain in the United States and has long sought deals in Hollywood; and the HNA Group, an acquisitive conglomerate with murky ownership.

Worse still, having vowed to abandon the European Union, Mrs May is driven into the arms of someone whose election (like the Brexit vote) was enthusiastically welcomed by every protectionist and nationalist in Europe, who seeks to destabilise the European Union itself, who has questioned the importance of Nato and who seeks a new deal with Putin as a strongman whom he admires as someone he can do business with.

Duncan Smith had reportedly been in negotiations with home secretary Theresa May and defence secretary Philip Hammond over the issue, as he sought a conditional deal in which the savings would prevent any further cuts to police and the armed forces.