1.   In practice, the amount of Creole used in any interaction is the subject of ongoing negotiation among the parties themselves.

2.   An accord comes after several months of negotiations among producers and speculation the group would break apart because of a larger than anticipated Brazilian harvest.

3.   At the end of the day, negotiations among leaders and administration officials ended and no high-level talks were scheduled for today.

4.   But barring late-night negotiations among the clubs, nothing seemed imminent Tuesday night.

5.   Concerns have been raised that with protracted negotiations among the United States, the Europeans and the Russians, these political questions will be held hostage by the Russians.

6.   DVD specifications, still being finalized, were announced in December after negotiations among nine companies that had been working on competing formats.

7.   Hannah has spearheaded negotiations among the agencies, airlines and banks to set up the kind of computerized money transfer system that westerners take for granted.

8.   Hastily improvised negotiations among the main presidential candidates demonstrated the power that television has gained in Mexican politics when the talks went sour for the opposition contender.

9.   He also made more than two dozen changes in his bill during negotiations among Republicans.