Sentences with phrase «tense negotiations»

How do you keep the peace between buyers and sellers in today's often tense negotiations?

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.

During tense negotiations over the bonds late last year, the city said the state threatened to zero out the fall funding entirely — a charge the governor's officials insisted was untrue.

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.

During his father's run for governor in 1982, Andrew Cuomo served as campaign manager and participated in tense negotiations with gay advocates, whose support his father was quietly courting.

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.

Some negotiators had made a last - minute attempt to reduce the U.K.'s role in the Unified Patent Court, but the move was blunted by Prime Minister David Cameron after tense negotiations.

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.

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...

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.

Disgraced Democratic powerhouse Vito Lopez kicked in about $ 2,400, along with similar sums from his accusers and the Assembly, to mediators to ease tense negotiations.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is acting as a behind - the - scenes mediator between the WFP and Cuomo as tense negotiations over the party's endorsement in the governor's race escalate ahead of its nominating convention Saturday.

There were some bumps in the road, though, including tense negotiations with the representatives of the state workers» unions and the Occupy movement that camped out across from the Capitol.

The City Council has reached a compromise with the NYPD on the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills, following tense negotiations that saw fierce opposition from the NYPD, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

«Scientific and personal rapport play an important role in sustaining tense negotiations,» Schroeder said.

The new initiatives were approved during tense negotiations at CMS's annual conference, held in Quito from 3 to 9 November.

So forget about tense negotiations and going back and forth about price, because with Ford Friends & Neighbors Pricing, what you see is what you pay — the price you see online or on the window sticker at the dealership is the low price you'll pay.

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

Tense negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could cause market jitters and even delay a long overdue recovery in exports.

The governor told reporters that while the state is «entering the political season now,» he would still work with the Republican - dominated Senate leadership coalition, which he denounced as a failure in a video message recorded, after tense negotiations, to win the Working Families Party endorsement last weekend.

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.

The budget figures, put forward in February, were subject to tense negotiations between the European Parliament and the member states.

It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh - and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more.

A simple trick you can use during tense negotiations or even a job interview is to touch the tip of your pinkie finger to the tip of your thumb.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After some tense negotiation, an omnibus package was approved that included the mayoral control extension and sales tax extenders, plus legislation providing a new name for the new Tappan Zee bridge and the flood relief package.

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.

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.

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.

This comes after days of tense negotiations.

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.

Decorating tip: Laura says that the decorating process often becomes a tense negotiation (with her husband!).

The guns that Vernon brings to the deal are not the ones that Frank's main man Chris (Cillian Murphy) requested, making a tense negotiation worse, but the deal blows up when Vernon's driver Harry (Jack Reynor) shoots Frank's junkie son - in - law Stevo (Sam Riley) in retaliation for something that happened the night before.

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.

The City Council and Mayor Anthony A. Williams had spent many hours in sometimes tense negotiation to come up with a plan for a hybrid board of elected and appointed members.

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.

After months of tense negotiations, leaders of the Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have tentatively agreed to use student test scores to evaluate instructors for the first time, officials announced Friday.

On Friday, Walcott walked away from the tense negotiations and sent King a letter saying the city and union would «not be able to come to an agreement» because «the teachers» union is not committed to real accountability.»

Tense negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could cause market jitters and even delay a long overdue recovery in exports.

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