1.   Developments had either been realised or were at least in the advanced stages of negotiation in the bulk of its area.

2.   Once Shamir had rejected this invitation, Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority.

3.   The negotiations in Geneva have set the scene for a possible agreement later in the year.

4.   Nonstop negotiations in an eleventh-hour attempt to avert a strike.

5.   The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues.

6.   He also stated that he had no objections to negotiations in the current peace process being held in Cairo.

7.   The sixth round of bilateral negotiations in the ongoing Middle East peace process closed in Washington in late September.

8.   The bilateral negotiations in Washington were accompanied by the usual round of off-stage diplomacy.

9.   Negotiations in the middle years of the eighteenth century clarified the frontier between the Habsburg lands and the Venetian republic.