Sentences with phrase «fraught negotiations»

The phrase "fraught negotiations" means that the discussions or talks involved are filled with difficulty, tension, or problems. Full definition
After that, a new programme, and more fraught negotiations, will probably be needed.
The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, is the pope's wish to directly influence next year's crucial UN climate meeting in Paris, when countries will try to conclude 20 years of fraught negotiations with a universal commitment to reduce emissions.
After no - one won the 2010 election four days of fraught negotiations gave birth to the Tory - Lib Dem coalition.
The final state budget coms out of often fraught negotiations between the governor, Assembly speaker and State Senate majority leader.
Tsipras, locked in fraught negotiations with EU leaders in Brussels until Monday morning, indicated that he would carry the Athens parliament, despite some defections, in a vote on the package by Wednesday.
Political uncertainly and economic upheaval have not helped to promote the country as a tourism destination, however, with a dramatic change of leadership in January from a pro-austerity government to an anti-austerity one and fraught negotiations over its financial bailout.
While we see some of this impact beginning to abate as the British pound regains its footing, the economic environment is likely to remain highly uncertain as fraught negotiations between the United Kingdom and European Union over Brexit continue throughout 2018.
Subscription services currently offer the potential of lower profits to content distributors, which is why movie studies have been involved in a series of increasingly fraught negotiations with Netflix.
Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation.
January 2 — Local broadcast deals in Russia for the 2018 world cup have been agreed with FIFA after a fraught negotiation process that saw the Russians unwilling to pay the asking price for their home world cup.
None of the amendments are likely to succeed, however, because of the fraught negotiations with other Commonwealth countries which have to be finalised before there can be any change to the constitutional arrangements around the monarchy.
It was plainly connected to the fraught negotiations and posturing over the issue of Zimbabwe, whose cricketing association has obvious links with the discredited Mugabe regime.
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