(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joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.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.
Treater
Definition:
(n.) One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
Example Sentences:
(1) The medical histories and physical examinations revealed no significant variations between the wood treaters and the comparison group.
(2) He concludes that a sensitive and effective relationship between treaters and patients remains the best safeguard against malpractice litigation.
(3) Risk of lung cancer was increased significantly for electricians; sheetmetal workers and tinsmiths; bookbinders and related printing trade workers; cranemen, derrickmen, and hoistmen; moulders, heat treaters, annealers and other heated metal workers; and construction labourers.
(4) In the first study, 363 Halloween trick-or-treaters were instructed to only take one candy.
(5) Psychological testing can help treaters go beyond such limiting (if not disruptive) reactions to achieve a constructive use of countertransference with borderline patients.
(6) When subjects were tested under partial cue-reveraal conditions (Experiment 2) strychnine treated animals exhibited treater utilization of one of the redundant relevant stimuli than the other, while saline-treated animals exhibited no preference.
(7) Progeny of mothers treater intragastrically developed significant incidences of neurogenic tumors of the peripheral nervous system, with a predominance in females.
(8) He suggests that training staff workers and increased government commitment to such inpatient programs with outreach capacity can foster a change in attitude among treaters, thereby improving treatment outcome of the homeless mentally ill.
(9) Results of detailed medical histories, laboratory and physiological tests, and physical examinations of 88 wood treaters were compared with those of 58 matched controls.
(10) In most cases the hatred is mitigated by periods where the patient sees the treater as more helpful and less malevolent, a shift that makes the treatment process more tolerable.
(11) We argue that the ego development construct can help treaters match patients to treatment modalities that are compatible with their frames of reference.
(12) He warned: "It risks it being used for those who seek to protest peacefully, noisy children in the street, street preachers, canvassers, carol singers, trick-or-treaters, church bell ringers, clay pigeon shooters, nudists.
(13) During this period the staff treater 1,718 teeth and 43 times they treater soft tissues of the oral cavity.
(14) The president promised sweets for all trick-or-treaters coming to the gates of the White House, and extra large chocolate bars for anyone from the swing state of Ohio.
(15) When applicable, the discussion surrounds a prototypical case which illustrates the real dilemmas which treaters and patients may have experienced or may encounter.
(16) The author urges treaters to be emotionally available to these patients, who struggle with the interpersonal dilemma of maintaining separateness while establishing mature connectedness.
(17) Patients with the borderline syndrome, although not always the sickest patients, often cause the most difficulty because of their intense and contagious affects, their often impulsive behavior, and the strains they place on the treaters' countertransference.
(18) During the assessment phase, this approach is likely to (1) generate interest among treaters (2) solidify rapport with the patient resulting in a positive attitude toward the assessing clinician with more informative self-reports, (3) elucidate, for the clinician, the patient's major deficits in personality structure, especially the inability to understand and control affective states, and (4) stimulate the patient's curiosity about the way in which emotions are perceived and processed.
(19) For years treaters of mental patients who harmed other persons were largely protected by three doctrines: the common law rule of nonresponsibility, sovereign immunity, and the "honest error" rule.
(20) The authors recommend that evaluators and treaters of incestuous families pay close attention to the specific dynamics of any given case and avoid assuming that common scenarios or traits of participants alone can adequately explain the incest.