31.   The company says it has reached an impasse in negotiations with the union.

32.   The college president was against any negotiation with the students.

33.   They engaged in secret negotiations with the enemy.

34.   Gorbachev nevertheless appeared to have modified his earlier rejection of negotiations with Lithuania, telling reporters that there would be mutually respectful dialogue.

35.   The campaign revolved around the issue of whether negotiations with the drug cartels to end the current violence should take precedence over efforts to bring them to justice.

36.   The independence declaration was prompted by the tightening of a government economic blockade of the island following the collapse of peace negotiations with the rebels.

37.   Gorbachev apparently told Landsbergis that negotiations with Lithuania could begin if it suspended its independence declaration, if only for the duration of those negotiations.

38.   The Black Consciousness Movement asserted that negotiations with the government would amount to negotiating blacks into a subtler form of subjugation.

39.   After visiting the USA Mubarak produces a list of Palestinians to enter into preliminary pre-election negotiations with Israeli officials.

40.   Mexico was also involved in preliminary free trade negotiations with the United States and Canada.