Sentences with phrase «bargaining chips»

Rather, the results of these audits will be used by home buyers as bargaining chips to significantly reduce the final selling price.»

- you just received one of the best bargaining chips you could have gotten!

In an era where custody battles and parental alienation are mediocrities of a broken family life, the fact can't be denied that children are often used as bargaining chips or powerful weapons to hurt the other parent.

Common divorce mistakes clients make include forgetting about taxes, allowing friends and family to influence them, letting your emotions control your decisions, not considering the liquidity of assets you receive in the divorce, not securing support payments with insurance, trying to hide assets, quitting work to get more support, not being prepared for settlement negotiations or mediation, dating during the divorce, using the children as bargaining chips, getting emotionally attached to assets, and neglecting post-divorce financial planning.

Analysts say Ling and Lee are being used as «bargaining chips» for North Korea to engage in dialogue about its nuclear program with the U.S.

My husband and I recently decided that bedtime books are no longer bargaining chips.

If they have their own client base and are in a position to spin work around to other lawyers, I suppose they have more bargaining chips to set their own terms for retirement.

Thus, it could vindicate its own values claims by treating individuals as autonomous subjects, rather than objects who may be treated instrumentally as bargaining chips in a negotiation — a position which has unfortunately already been displayed by the UK political leaders who will soon sit on the other side of the negotiating table.

Indeed, there's great concern among some groups that the rights of injured victims may become bargaining chips, especially if budget talks get kicked down the road.

Richard also discovered some fascinating back stories to add to his series, including something called Hoop Politics: «The local and regional politicians sponsor and advertise on backboards and also use dilapidated hoops as bargaining chips when elections come around, for instance — vote for me and I'll buy you a new basketball hoop.

«There are cases where we have to hold the dogs for months because they're bargaining chips for the miller — they trade them in exchange for dropped charges,» says Goodwin.

Those issues can be used as bargaining chips to bring down the prices of their would - be homes — or even lead them to walk away from money pit purchases.

It's hard to know what's more appalling in this parade of horribles: that teachers unions used personnel files as bargaining chips or that the negotiators on the other side of the table took them up on it.

When a commercial flight is hijacked in 1976 and diverted to an abandoned terminal at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, the terrified passengers become bargaining chips in a deadly political standoff.

When it comes to shared space projects, the US and Russia are too codependent to use them as bargaining chips.

Considering them as bargaining chips does little to instill confidence in the MTA.

Cuomo has also craftily stirred other major issues, including legislative redistricting and gay marriage, into the mix periodically — in part because he wants them resolved, but also as bargaining chips or signal - senders to constituencies.

Veterans of the budget process say the absence of such proposals makes them bargaining chips as Cuomo negotiates his spending plan with legislators.

Late last year, the state lost one of its bargaining chips in the attempt to shut down Indian Point, when an appellate court ruled the plant is grandfathered in under the state's Coastal Management Plan, which protects wildlife habitat as well as recreational activities on the Hudson River.

He denied EU nationals were being used as bargaining chips.

When it was a large group of countries negotiating it was difficult for the US to make demands like lowering beef tariffs, but when it is just the US and Japan and the US can use other areas of trade as bargaining chips, it becomes much harder for Japan to resist.

At the same time, he is warning the Trump administration not to use Americans being held abroad as bargaining chips in negotiations.

We shouldn't allow our young people to be used as bargaining chips in this country.»

It's Remainers who want resident EU citizens to be bargaining chips; and it's «mainly Brexiteers who find this repugnant».

Both sides are likely to use the two laws as bargaining chips for their chosen cause.

Every investigative committee setup ends as bargaining chips to add more to the next budget and in rare cases when reports emanate from such Committees, it is at the gain of Bake - beans sellers, fried - yam merchants and hawkers of groundnuts and popcorn.

Cuomo's role in crafting the state's spending plan provides his primary power over the education system, and it also offers him maximum leverage in negotiating with lawmakers, because he typically has lots of bargaining chips.

But at least the issue will be talked about and used as bargaining chips for other things.

Indeed, for the reason mentioned above, unilateral disarmament would take away one of our only bargaining chips in pushing for it.

In New York's prisons and jails, simple menstruation supplies like pads and tampons can become bargaining chips, used to maintain control by correction officers, or traded among incarcerated women, according to former inmates and advocates on the issue.

He has to show he cares about them, so they can fall away like bargaining chips the minute they look like they may prevent an on - time budget.

If they play their cards right the independence referendum and some of the conquered territories could be instrumental as bargaining chips to integrate at least some additional territories to the KRG area or maybe gain a confederate status within Iraq.

As the session winds down, the state Capitol can be a deadline driven place as laws expire or, in the parlance of Albany, sunset and become bargaining chips in broader negotiations.

All too many couples use their children as bargaining chips.

You don't leave bargaining chips on the table.

Also, this action has established the value of an Israeli soldier at 1,000 Palestinian terrorists and will embolden the Palestinian terrorist leaders to capture more Israeli soldiers to use as bargaining chips.

Only thus can grace be truly free: in recognizing our sin, we are left without any bargaining chips, without appeal and defenses.

While the band was definitely in danger of being detained as political bargaining chips, you know damn well that those verbal threats of execution by the «high ranking members» were nothing more than just that.

This is what trade experts believe is most important to each, and what their biggest bargaining chips are:

He said he is unhappy that his commodities are being used as bargaining chips in a potential trade war, and worries farmers like him will end up as collateral damage.

Miller's agent, Joby Branion, knew his client — arguably the best linebacker in the league — could earn much more than that if he had any bargaining chips.

If you're a young startup without extensive funding, one of the bargaining chips in your back pocket is offering equity in lieu of a higher salary or better benefits.

To make matters worse, Erdogan has now all but admitted that he is holding Americans hostage in Turkey as bargaining chips for the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish spiritual leader living in self - imposed exile in the U.S.

Of course, if the United States is that dead set against Canadian legalization, it would seem to me we could use the spectre of legalization as a bargaining chip to obtain trade concessions from the U.S. (Keystone XL?).

Earlier this month, analysts speculated that China could use its huge stockpile of US Treasurys as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations.

«North Korea would use the talk as a bargaining chip with the U.S., as their goal is to have dialogue with Washington, not Seoul.»

This, of course, caused a rush of Googlers to interview at Facebook, only to use the resulting offer as a bargaining chip to improve their Google pay.

While Bond King Bill Gross, founder of world's largest bond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hysteria.

Netflix initially offered Amy Schumer $ 11 million in 2017 for her hourlong «The Leather Special,» but Schumer was reportedly able to use Netflix's more lucrative deals with Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle as a bargaining chip to receive $ 13 million for the hour, according to Variety.

Or my colleague Dennis Kneale suggested that this will really put Home Shopping network in play as a potential acquisition / bargaining chip.