(n.) One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
(3) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(5) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(6) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(7) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(8) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(9) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
(10) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(11) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
(12) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
(13) Yesterday a new French president was elected – he was elected with a strong mandate which he can take into a strong position in negotiations.
(14) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(15) Pfizer kept up its efforts to get AstraZeneca to the negotiating table over its £63bn approach as it reported revenue well below Wall Street expectations, underscoring its interest in pursuing its UK rival to promote new business growth.
(16) Krell is also trying to lure Mothercare to the negotiating table.
(17) He said the group was in negotiation with media regulator Ofcom, which will look at them on a case-by-case basis.
(18) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
(19) "We believe there's a much fairer solution and are hopeful that today's demonstration will bring things back to the negotiating table."
(20) A new round of negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear programme got under way on Wednesday, bringing together the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and top diplomats from the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China.
Peacemaker
Definition:
(n.) One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance.
Example Sentences:
(1) To reach a wider audience, the Aegis Trust has created a travelling exhibition called "Peacemaking after genocide".
(2) My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can’t deal with personal conflict.
(3) That searing experience continues to shape the thinking of a generation of policymakers and peacemakers anxious that there should not be "another Rwanda" on their watch.
(4) Stone’s depiction of himself in his book tallies well with Bilton’s: self-deprecating, a peacemaker, but also someone who gets things done.
(5) The Holy Bible tells us: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
(6) Identifying these barriers will be critical for increasing the participation of women in peacemaking and therefore increasing the probability of lasting peace.
(7) Netanyahu avoided the political risk of peacemaking, and kept his coalition together.
(8) His message to the Israeli left – and perhaps to John Kerry, now on yet another peacemaking trip to Jerusalem – is that it can delude itself no more that dealing with the relatively easy matter of the post-1967 occupation will be enough to bring peace.
(9) Peacemakers were located by extra- and intracellular recordings.
(10) In February, Ivanka Trump made a peacemaking visit to the Chinese embassy in Washington.
(11) Leaders pointed to Qatar — look!” Instead of offering to play peacemaker, as two of his top national security aides had done hours after the crisis erupted, Trump unequivocally sided with Saudi Arabia and its main ally, the United Arab Emirates.
(12) From my point of view, nothing can be done without women enjoying their rights and liberty, possessing their bodies and being fully acknowledged as actors of development and part of decision-making process at all levels, especially in the context of peacebuilding and peacemaking.
(13) The police have made it very clear that he is an important witness to the incident and played the role of peacemaker and is unlikely to face any charges as a result.
(14) In the video, meant to salvage his legacy, he appealed to the nation to remember his peacemaking efforts as leader and denied any wrongdoing in the bribery conviction against him.
(15) The tensions between Yaalon and Netanyahu had little to do with Middle East peacemaking, and much more to do with the role of the military in Israeli society.
(16) Around the world, Manning is hailed as a peacemaker and a hero.
(17) The patients with ulcerative colitis had a significantly better relationship with their mothers, the patients with Crohn's disease often called themselves "peacemaker".
(18) While Costa has drawn the attention, the case of Gabriel, who had initially appeared to be acting as peacemaker in the spat, is more complicated.
(19) While the president, François Hollande , was playing the peacemaker by trying to negotiate a ceasefire between the Russians and Ukrainians on Monday, 400 Russian sailors arrived to be trained in using the high-tech Mistral-class ship, the Vladivostok.
(20) Three women who have campaigned for peace and democracy in Liberia and Yemen have been jointly awarded this year's Nobel peace prize , in a decision that acknowledges women's contributions both to the Arab spring and to post-conflict peacemaking in Africa.