Sentences with phrase «stalled talks»
The phrase "stalled talks" means that discussions or negotiations have temporarily stopped progressing or have come to a halt. Full definition
«Tsipras wasted his political capital in endless months of stalled talks where bluster and threats took center stage to the detriment of detailed planning,» said Eirini Karamouzi, a lecturer in contemporary history at Sheffield University.
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Jenkinson was supposedly in two minds over the transfer, but a report in today's Metro, suggests that Palace's wage offer to January signing Jeffrey Schlupp's weekly payment, was enough to stall talks between all parties.
The Belgium international's future has been in some doubt recently as he looked to have stalled talks over a new deal, with his current contract expiring at the end of next season.
In December 2009 the islands stalled talks at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, fearing some other developing countries were not committing fully to binding deals on a reduction in carbon emission, their chief negotiator stated «Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.»
After months of stalled talks, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association blamed the de Blasio administration for «draconian givebacks» in their latest offer, including «dramatic increases in out - of - pocket health benefit costs» and removing the PBA Annuity Fund for current and future members.
The length of the arbitration process due to the changing requirements for the Balkan candidates, combined with the EU's shifting policies regarding Kosovo, have stalled the talks.
In September 2012, Cuomo jumped in to mediate between the Communications Workers of America and Verizon Communications after 13 months of stalled talks.
In response to the agreement, Representative George Miller (D — CA), chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee who held a hearing in April on the then - stalled talks, issued a statement criticizing the «unnecessary delays that blocked a first contract for far too long,» adding that those delays were «outrageous and needed to end,» and that «it was clear that [UC] caused» the delays.
For de Boer and his U.N. colleagues, efforts to kick - start the stalled talks have meant a major push this month at events in New York and Washington.
At one point during the stalled talks in 2004, New York Sun columnist Jack Newfield referred to the state's two legislative leaders, the governor and the mayor, as «The Four Horsemen of Paralysis.»
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has positioned his country and himself as a honest broker in the international climate negotiations, and he is in New York this week to help get the stalled talks moving again.
So what has caused the fervor and fretting over the «lowering of expectations for the Copenhagen negotiations,» as was cited in today's satirical «Fossil of the Day» prize that's awarded by CAN - International to the nation (s) that have done the «best» at blocking or stalling the talks.