6 sentences with 'negotiating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word negotiating and other words derived from it.
• « In 624, just two years after his arrival in Medina, Muhammad led a Muslim force against an army from Mecca, and then in 630 CE, he conquered Mecca, largely by skilfully negotiating with his former enemies there - he promised to make Mecca the centre of Islam, demand pilgrimage, and incorporate it into his growing kingdom. »
• « The Third Crusade failed completely, with the English king negotiating a peace agreement with Saladin after Frederick died (he drowned trying to cross a river) and Philip returned to France. After this, only a few small territories remained in Christian hands. »
• « The Germans had been able to fight the French and British to a standstill on the Western Front, but when the US entered on the side of the British and French, it became impossible to sustain the war in the long run. The only hope seemed to be a last-ditch offensive that could bring the French and British to the negotiating table. »
• « When the Germans learned that the Hungarians were negotiating with the Soviets to switch allegiance, now that German defeat was all but assured in early 1944, they supported a coup by Hungarian fascists under the direction of the Nazi state. »
• « In 1973, Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize honour for negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam. »
• « These arguments are brought to the negotiating table and, if there is no agreement, mediation or international arbitration may be used. »