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Usage examples of negotiator.

The negotiator worked to isolate the suspect while at the same time setting himself in a position to wait, psychologically starving out the individual, as here, where Abies had effectively been placed under house arrest.

This time, Malic had decided to lay out a buffet of Ferengi food in deference to both negotiators, with some other food for those, like Bajorans and Orions, who pre-ferred blander fare.

He had mentioned the one-to-one ratio simply as an unattainable opening salvo to establish one end-point to the range, however ridiculous that endpoint was, as any good negotiator would start a discussion, with the hope that Schuler might ultimately see his way clear to saying he could underwrite perhaps half a billion dollars.

But with Jay in Spain, Henry Laurens locked up in the Tower of London, Jefferson unlikely to leave Virginia, and Adams tied down with his assignment in Holland, there remained only Franklin to serve as the American negotiator at Paris, exactly as Vergennes desired.

Ever the swamp-fox negotiator, Barnett pleasantly badgered the attorney general by phone into having all the marshals draw their guns on him this time, not just McShane.

At a meeting with FBI negotiator Max Bhagat and the SEAL commanders, whose names she had to consult her memo pad to keep straight.

Perkins recognized this as Bureau negotiator standard operating procedure, though for Fagin it probably pegged Banish as a coward.

They had just lost their most vicious negotiator, my oldest and wiliest enemy in this business, who had toppled off a rusty catwalk into an intake pond, been sucked into a big pipe, shredded into easily digestible bits by rotating knives and processed into toxic sludge.

Back at the CIA, when we heard the composition of the delegation, we immediately realized that the Iraqis had no intention of seriously bargaining with Kuwait--if so, they would have sent their negotiators, Tariq Aziz or former ambassador to the United States Nizar Hamdun.

Thus, American negotiators got a leg up by discovering the strategies and arguing points of the other players.

Fortunately for the eavesdroppers, the Japanese negotiators frequently bypassed secure, encrypted phones because insecure hotel telephones were more readily available and easier to use.

The One King would meet a negotiator for the empire atop Widowmaker Mountain at the next new moon.

This Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes did, and on December 10 Japan capitulated, instructing its negotiator, in a cable read by the Black Chamber, that "there is nothing to do but accept the ratio proposed by the United States.

It's clear you are a clever fellow and a good negotiator, he chortled to himself.

It was after six when Ellie finished her briefing of the State Department's `Tiger Team" that was backstopping the American negotiators in Paris.