Sentences with phrase «than a bargaining chip»

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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.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

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.

When couples show up to marriage counseling with intimacy problems, you can almost always be sure than one or the other has departed from the proper perspective and begun using their spouse or using seex as a bargaining chip for power or control in the relationship.

That does not mean Canada Soccer should simply settle for second best as far as the status of its MLS players is concerned, but for now the exit of the league's fourth-most valuable club and reigning MVP seems more like a bargaining chip than a genuine option.

Something tells us that the jump from 100 units to 175 and the $ 55,120 (down from last year's $ 57,500) price tag is more of a bargaining chip than it is a gesture of sincerity.

Hoping to use oil as a bargaining chip to win votes for climate legislation in Congress, Obama unveiled an aggressive push for new offshore drilling in the Arctic, the Southeastern seaboard and new waters in the Gulf, closer to Florida than ever before.

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.

Unfortunately, based on your other post about the family dynamics it sounds like the parents use the promise of inheritance as a bargaining chip to keep him subservient to their own whims and wishes... which is no different than a father telling their child that they won't pay for their higher education unless they make the grades and attend the college of their parents choice.