Once you do this, you signal to your opponent that you're ready to give something up in order to get to an agreement.
"My argument is that even though both sides may have areas of strong disagreement, maybe engaging in activities that the other side considers to be a breach of good faith, we have to push through those things to try to get to an agreement, " he said.
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The new aim is to get an agreement to take those numbers much lower.
The Fed faced a November 10 deadline to get an agreement from the counterparties on how to cancel the derivatives contracts to stop the collateral calls.
Some wanted a greater emphasis on decommissioning, some wanted greater emphasis on accelerated release of prisoners and as George Mitchell said it was difficult to get an agreement and it has been equally difficult to implement it.
But the nature of compromise is taking enough things to get an agreement through.
The European Union aim is to get an agreement that Gazprom will give up control of its pipelines and let other companies share the routes.
Benedikt Jonsson, the Icelandic ambassador to the UK, issued a statement last year saying that his country has worked for years to get an agreement on mackerel fishing.
Meanwhile, U.S. envoy William Burns left Israel after failing to get an agreement from the Israelis and Palestinians on a timeline for adopting the recommendations of the Mitchell Report on Mideast peace.
"I want to pay credit to the two clubs Cliftonville and Crusaders, along with the residents in Skegoneill and others - community workers, political representatives - who had all worked very, very hard to try to get an agreement, had reached an agreement, " Mr Dodds said.
By late Friday night, negotiations to get agreement on an agenda for a new round of global-trade negotiations collapsed.
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So we ought to get about the business of reaching an agreement on balanced deficit reduction that makes the sequester what it was always meant to be, which was eliminated by better policy.
We need to put that absolutism aside, leave it at the door, and get to the hard work of reaching an agreement.
He said there had been an attempt to get a government agreement in 2004 for compensation for both the IRA and Lockerbie victims.
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Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the BBC cross-party talks, which have so far failed to reach an agreement, would continue as it was "important to get consensus" on this.
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It still takes French agreement to get things moving, meaning that Paris can act as an obstacle if it chooses to.
But since there is no assurance of an agreement, people in the defense sector are starting to get edgy as the clock ticks down.
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In the past, the administration has said that if it could not get an agreement with Russia it would abrogate the treaty this month, so as to begin a new round of tests.
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But nobody's going to agree on a specific trade accord just as it sits, so the President is going to continue to work with folks to make sure that we get to a good agreement that works for American workers and works for getting trade going in an aggressive way.
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We didn't quite pass the test in Copenhagen because we couldn't get an agreement on a long-term treaty - in other words everybody feeling bound in to a common strategy that would last for ten years.
And I have certainly allowed for the fact that that measure may not pass, and that if it does not pass we will move forward and try to find a way to reach an agreement that ensures that the American people, 160 million of them, get the kind of tax relief that this President firmly believes they deserve and need next year.
At a press conference in Mexico on Monday, Salman Khan and Carlos Slim announced they had signed an agreement of cooperation to allow students, teachers, researchers and others in Mexico to get access to education and training courses by translating them into Spanish.
The point of a negotiation is to find a way to reach an agreement that satisfies both parties and gives you something more than you believe you can get.
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And our principals continue to meet and brief the President on what's happening, and that will continue until we do get an agreement.
Well, how is this agreement now between this country and India going to effect what has been an international campaign to get Iran and also North Korea to give up their nuclear programs?
Now I'll be working on that in the next few months and I can see a way forward because what prevented an agreement was suspicion and fear and forms of protectionism that I think we've got to get over.
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