Compromise and deadlock

Stance, tough stance, aggressive stance concession, compromise veto, use your veto, deadlock, deadlocked impasse, loggerheads, at loggerheads

A negotiating position, particularly one unlikely to change, is a stance. A stance is often described as tough or aggressive.

Negotiators try to reach agreement by making concessions, demanding less than they demanded earlier, hoping to get concessions from the other side, thus reaching agreement through compromise.

If one side refuses a proposal during talks, it vetoes it, or uses its veto.

Where there is disagreement, the two sides are at loggerheads, and where there is no prospect of a

change in negotiating positions, commentators talk about deadlock, or an impasse. Talks in this state are deadlocked.

The verbs corresponding to the nouns concession and compromise are concede and compromise. The nouns corresponding to the verbs break down and collapse are breakdown and collapse.

· Yet while some club chairmen are taking a tough stance, others are now more wary of confrontation-worried about the financial implications to the clubs themselves if suddenly there were no games.

· She is either so confident of her strength that she feels she can get away with such an aggressive stance, or so committed to her underlying beliefs about Europe that she feels compelled to speak her mind regardless of the consequence.

· Prince Sihanouk has put forward a compromise proposal to break the deadlock in peace talks being held by the supreme National Council in Bangkok.

· The conference is still deadlocked over the American’s refusal to agree to provide extra money.

· Whenever the Democtrats have compromised, the White House negotiating team have said, ’Thank you very much. Now let’s start over and compromise what’s left.’

· Featherstone rejected two offers from Halifax, and refused to concede any significant concessions to Leeds.

· The Latvians are confident that these talks will continue, thus avoiding the 'no concessions, no talks' impasse that exists between Moscow and Vilnius.

· America's decision to re-establish a dialogue with Vietnam might in the long runhelpresolveissue, but meanwhile ASEAN and the United States remain at loggerheads withno compromisein sight.

· One recent EC rule on air pollution would have cost Spain Ptas 300 billion to enforce to Spanish officials — if it had not used its veto to win a let-out for its factories to continue dirty brown coal. Spain likes those bits of political union that come free.

Compromise or deadlock? Match the two parts of these extracts.

1 After Lucas described the character to his collaborator, Steven Spielberg,

2 But after five hours of talks, the British governments political initiativefor Northern Ireland

3 If Clintonism were ever to exist, it would describe the art of picking a la carte from his favourite policy menus.

4 Officially there has been no change in Taiwan's standing policy of ‘three noes’

5 Talks between El Salvador's leftist rebels and government representatives remains.

6 The 55-day budget deadlock in New York State has been broken.

7 The Dalai Lama evidently has little hope of

a remained deadlocked. And neither side appears hopeful of a breakthrough

b compromise with Chinas current rulers.

c deadlocked over the thorny problem of reforming El Salvador's US-backed military.

d In Arkansas he has compromised so much that even at 45 he is the longest-a governor in the country.

e no contact, no compromise, and no negotiation.

f The government and state lawmakers reached a tentative agreement last night

g the two men compromised on 'someone like Harrison Ford'

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