Sentences with phrase «of tense negotiations»

After days of tense negotiations, the Soviets finally agreed on the 28th to withdraw their missiles from Cuban soil.

The Baltimore Teachers Union has voted overwhelmingly to ratify a three - year contract with the school board after more than a year and a half of tense negotiations.

When asked if anyone in the administration would be held accountable for telling the Journal the mayor was «bumbling and incompetent,» Mr. Cuomo brushed off the comment as just part of tense negotiations.

It's unclear whether that coalition will endure, as progressives questioned Cuomo's commitment to re-taking the Senate — a promise that was made in the course of tense negotiations to secure the Working Families Party nomination.

After 16 months of tense negotiations that included a two - week strike last year, unions representing 45,000 Verizon employees announced tentative new contracts that call for an 8 percent pay raise over four years while requiring workers to pay more for health coverage.

Ward, appointed by then - governor David Paterson, established a new, realistic timetable for the reconstruction of the site and led the Port through more than a year and a half of tense negotiations with Silverstein Properties that culminated in a financing agreement signed in August 2010.

Since the June 22 Yulin dog meat festival, members of China Animal Protection Power have rescued more than 1,000 dogs bound for slaughter in a series of dog truck interceptions on China's highways involving days of tense negotiation with dog traders and police.

Months of tense negotiation between Adult Swim and Rick and Morty creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland culminated in the cartoon getting a massive 70 - episode...

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There's some inherent drama to buying a house: big sums of money, high emotional stakes, tense negotiations, simply tragic interior decor.

The tense negotiations over Greece's debt come as the Greek government struggles to find a consensus to pass the budget reforms demanded by its so - called troika of lenders — the European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund — in exchange for releasing the next installment of bailout money, a 30 billion euro ($ 38.3 billion) payout scheduled to be released in March.

Mr. Black continued, «Against the backdrop of tense NAFTA negotiations in Montreal this week, proceeding with a multilateral trade agreement that retains the majority of the terms negotiated for the TPP assures that Canada's exporters will have new avenues to pursue diversified markets around the Asia - Pacific.»

«Whilst negotiations have been protracted and at times tense, we are pleased that a settlement has been reached that will provide our Jersey members with conditions of service more in line with their UK counterparts and recognise their commitment to provide a first class education service.»

De Blasio and NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito are expected to reach an early budget agreement this year, cutting short weeks of sometimes tense negotiations.

President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.

Klein and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - East Northport) said a late entry into the tense negotiations is the prospect of a new commission that could recommend raises for legislators.

I even resent the big chunk of time Shelly Silver takes off during tense budget negotiations so he can go lounge around in a posh hotel and «observe» whatever the hell it is he observes.

The final plan was approved by the City Council last year after tense closed - door negotiations between elected officials, and includes reconstruction of the Brooklyn Heights Library, a new library for DUMBO and Vinegar Hill, 114 new affordable units in Clinton Hill and a new STEM lab for District 13 students.

The agreement marks the end of the often tense negotiations to replace a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago - the longest contract stalemate in the history of public sector collective bargaining...

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito are expected to reach an early budget agreement this year, cutting short weeks of sometimes tense negotiations.

In a bit of drama that unfolded during the end of the year, city and state officials were locked in a tense negotiation over how much the de Blasio administration would receive in its annual reallocation.

The agreement marks the end of the often tense negotiations to replace a teacher contract that expired 12 years ago - the longest contract stalemate in the history of public sector collective bargaining in New York, according to the New York State United Teachers, the parent union of the Buffalo Teachers Federation.

Working from Burke's screenplay, the Brazilian director Jose Padilha («Narcos») cuts between the increasingly tense passengers, confined to a sweaty corner of the Entebbe airport terminal; the infighting among the terrorists; and the high - level political and military planning put into action by Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), a no - negotiation hard - liner, and Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi), depicted here as the conflicted pragmatist.

In the film «Saving Mr. Banks,» the children's author P.L. Travers finds herself in tense negotiations with Walt Disney over the 1964 film version of Travers» classic stories featuring the magical English nanny Mary Poppins.

Director Tobias Lindholm knows how to pile on the tension too: Negotiation scenes are filmed from Malling's end, making them unbearably tense when things go awry, and the film's biggest shocks come from its casual way of letting the audience see the passing of time.

The opening half of the film is ably directed and written by Tobias Lindholm, whose equally tense previous work, «A Hijacking,» deals with negotiations to free Danish hostages captured by Somali pirates.

The film's final act (in which Louis and Rick opt to follow the at - large suspects of a multiple shooting Louis captures earlier in the film) is a tremendously tense series of strained negotiations and last - second strategies, chess pieces shifting and moving into place in the finest De Palma tradition.

Dealing with a Somali translator named Omar (Asgar), who claims that his life is also on the line should the negotiations turn sour, the back - and - forth makes things tense on both sides of the phone, as one false move could spell the end of a hostage's life.

A number of fairly remarkable incidents occur during Daniel's time in Little Boston, including an explosion with personal consequences, the appearance of an unknown half - brother (Kevin J. O'Connor), tense negotiations with agents from Standard Oil, and Daniel's baptism in Eli's church.

Her accounts of D.C. school visits; negotiations with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; and other tense occasions come and go in clipped phrases, as if Rhee simply hasn't the time to probe the dynamics behind them.

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

The article also notes the tense negotiation over control of the pricing of Macmillan books, with Amazon temporarily de-listing every Macmillan book from its store.

In many ways this Russian transplant was the leading American authority on Alaska of his day, a prominent position he held until he was discredited in a most public and humiliating manor during tense international negotiations.

December's tense negotiations finally yielded the unanimous agreement of 191 countries and the European Union on a «Call to Action.»

He focused particularly on the fact that the meeting took place some two weeks before the expiration of the collective agreement... a tense period where negotiations had broken down.

While there will be screaming and shouting, and negotiations can get tense, ultimately both sides want to get the deal done so there is an element of collaboration underlying the transactoin.