How to Use the negotiating table in a Sentence

the negotiating table

noun
  • The Ravens aren’t at the negotiating table with the state and the Orioles.
    Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • For now, this is more about a show of strength by the union in the hopes that Samsung will come to the negotiating table.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
  • The group that likely would push back the most against a shift would be the coaches, who don’t have a seat at the negotiating table.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The heated back-and-forth gives a sense of how much work will have to be done to reach a deal once the union and the studios return to the negotiating table.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • The two sides were last at the negotiating table on Aug. 18.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • After the Super Bowl, Jones and the Chiefs will be back at the negotiating table.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • But there have been signs of progress at the negotiating table.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 June 2023
  • The office said the only way the conflict will end is at the negotiating table.
    NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
  • But, the same cricket rights which may have brought Disney to the negotiating table may be a sticking point in the merger process.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
  • After more than 900 days of the war, Russia and Ukraine show no sign of letting up in the fight or moving closer to the negotiating table.
    Illia Novikov and Vasilisa Stepanenko, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The first was that Hamas would not be at the negotiating table for hostage-release if Israel had not moved its forces into Gaza.
    Eric Tegler, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Here is a list of contract demands the union is making at the negotiating table.
    Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • To find out the nuances of when to haggle and when to walk, two antiques dealers shared their insights from the other side of the negotiating table.
    Heather Bien, Southern Living, 27 June 2024
  • Two years later, there are still no signs that Russia and Ukraine might return to the negotiating table.
    Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Management and the union just agreed to return to the negotiating table next week after talks broke down in the early hours of July 5.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 July 2023
  • China and the United States are back at the negotiating table.
    Olivia Wang, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Ryan’s words may not resonate with some of the companies sitting on the other side of the negotiating table.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 July 2023
  • Regardless, lawmakers from both chambers will have to return to the negotiating table in the new year to avoid the across-the-board budget cuts in the debt limit deal.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The legislation had no chance of advancing in the Senate but served as a marker and won him a seat at the negotiating table.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • At first, Israel didn’t want to sit down at the negotiating table, viewing payment as an easy route to making amends.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Now that the testing is done, the union is taking a new step: putting rent into their own accounts and waiting for management to come to the negotiating table.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This would create leverage to force Putin to the negotiating table.
    Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • While big media companies may be able to bring tech giants to the negotiating table, Sanchez said, Raptive’s clients don’t have that kind of clout.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
  • The strong earnings and profit outlook could pose a challenge for GM at the negotiating table by prompting the union to take an even harder line in its demands.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 July 2023
  • The big studios and striking actors will head back to the negotiating table on Monday, with both sides formally talking for the first time in months.
    Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • And a new deal may be at an impasse after the war of words spilled from the negotiating table onto social media Wednesday night.
    Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The move suggested that talks have gotten more serious since the Friday sit-down, which served as the first formal return to the negotiating table since the strike was called May 2.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The cuts were so draconian that Republicans and Democrats would have to come to the negotiating table for a budget deal.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • Washington could leverage the threat of arming South Korea and Japan to bring China to the negotiating table.
    Amy J. Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024
  • The Animation Guild stated in a Friday update that while the two sides were making progress on reaching an agreement, the differences between the parties would require more days at the negotiating table.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2024

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