The trade with Africa offered several possibilities to set up trading posts or factories, an important starting point for negotiations.

On August 18, 2009, after months of speculation and negotiations, twice-retired veteran quarterback Brett Favre, who until 2007 played 16 years for division arch rival Green Bay Packers, signed a two-year, $ 25 million deal with the Vikings, starting what many Vikings fans refer to as " The Brett Favre Era ".

Alongside Barak's momentous encounter, some sources have said that a senior figure from Qatar paid a visit to Israel in mid-January 2008 and met with Israeli leaders to discuss the situation in Gaza and the possibility of jump starting stagnant negotiations over the release of Gilad Shalit.

Once an armistice was declared, then facts on the ground would be the starting point of negotiations for the final drawing of the new borders in a forthcoming peace treaty.

He led the negotiations on the split of seats with the Liberals for the SDP side and his decision to go public on the difficulties encountered has often been blamed for starting the Alliance's slide in the opinion polls.

A member of the Advisory Group at the Center for Global Development, member the Task Force on Global Public Goods and the Special Commission on the Balkans and associated with the Economics and Foreign Policy Forum in Istanbul, Derviş was instrumental in strengthening Turkey ’ s prospects of starting membership negotiations with the European Union.

MIT reluctantly licensed versions of VAX Macsyma from Berkeley to about 50 universities, starting with Caltech, under condition that the licenses would be revoked when negotiations for a proper license were complete.

After the outbreak of the uprising, the Turks try to gain time by starting negotiations while reinforcements arrive.

Several governments and organizations have proposed model treaties to use as starting points in their own negotiations.

Recently ( 2011 ), the local authorities have completed negotiations with international travel agents for organizing regular charter flights starting from May 2012.

Lévesque was not trusted by many in the group until he signed the document, and many of the " Gang's " later problems would be attributed to the fact that Lévesque thought the agreement was a final one when he signed it, not a starting point for negotiations as the other premiers understood it.

While the negotiations took place, the French had failed to prevent the Dutch from starting to inundate the Dutch Water Line and for Williams III's small army to withdraw behind it.

In 1960, Columbia / CBS began negotiations with its main international distributor Philips Records with the goal of CBS starting its own global record company.

In further negotiations it was agreed first to construct 2 test lines starting from the northern and the southern end of the projected Transiranian Railroad in order to establish cost for an agreement on the whole line.

During the negotiations for starting the rewriting the constitution after the victory of the movement, CPN ( Burma ) was clearly amongst the most moderate elements inside ULF.

At the time of his retirement, Grbac had been in negotiations with the Denver Broncos — Denver was interested in signing him as a backup to starting quarterback Brian Griese, but Grbac opted for retirement.

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

Ford reportedly spent several million dollars in an audit of Ferrari factory assets and in legal negotiations, only to have Ferrari unilaterally cut off talks at a late stage due to disputes about the ability to direct open wheel racing.

It was expected that the EU would announce in late 2006 the date for commencement of EU accession negotiations.

The British did not recognize that and more negotiations ensued, with Congress taking a role in provincial government in the late 1930s.

In the late stages of the war, Wilson took personal control of negotiations with Germany, including the armistice.

EU accession negotiations were concluded late in 2002 and a referendum on membership in 2003 saw 90. 86 % casting a valid vote of which 53. 65 % were " yes " votes.

After some tough negotiations, a merger with UPT was eventually agreed to in principle and announced in the late spring of 1951.

Frustrated by the Russians delaying the marriage negotiations, Napoleon rescinded his proposal in late January 1810 and began negotiations to marry Marie Louise with the Austrian ambassador, the Prince of Schwarzenberg.

He decided to begin negotiations in earnest with the four Dutch envoys having arrived in late June.

Relations between Charles and John II deteriorated afresh and John invaded Charles's territories in Normandy in late 1354 while Charles intrigued with Edward III's emissary, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster at the fruitless peace negotiations between England and France held at Avignon in the winter of 1354 – 55.

The principal sticking point in the late negotiations was the status of Malta.

In the late 1930s, she served as Hitler's personal translator during treaty negotiations with Britain.

After weeks of negotiations, it was announced that Sunoco would be forming a joint venture with the Carlyle Group, allowing for the continuation of operations at the Philadelphia refinery, and saving over 800 jobs The joint venture is slated to begin in late 2012.

The owners of the Newtown Hotel abruptly terminated negotiations for lease renewal and locked the licence-owner out of the premises in November 2007 The bar reopened in late 2010, under the name ' Freaky Tiki '.

Brant was at Fort Stanwix from late August into September for initial peace negotiations between the Six Nations and New York State officials, but he did not attend later treaty negotiations held there with the commissioners of the Continental Congress in October.

The Hittite annals known as The Deeds of Suppiluliuma informs us how an Egyptian queen named Dakhamunzu, the widow of her recently deceased husband Niphururiya and without sons, asks the Hittite king Suppiluliama to send her one of his own sons to be her husband and king of Egypt and how, after further negotiations, a Hittite prince ( Zannanza ) is sent to Egypt, only to be murdered en route there .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Akhenaten, Egypt's false Prophet </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson ) pp. 175-176 </ ref > The synchronisation of Hittite and Egyptian chronologies is unclear, but it is certain that the recounted episode must have happened in the late 18th Dynasty of Egypt ( i. e. the late Amarna period and its immediate aftermath ).

In late June Nekrasov was one of the Provisional Government's representatives at the negotiations with the Ukrainian Rada, which granted Ukraine a measure of autonomy within Russia.

In late 2004, after negotiations with the County, Northwest Airlines agreed to add Northwest Airlink service to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, which began on May 2, 2005.

From the late 1850s through 1893 the United Kingdom recognized the Maya free state as a de facto independent nation, even sponsoring treaty negotiations between the Spanish Yucateco state and the Maya Crusoob state.

Following a referendum the previous year in which voters had overwhelmingly backed independence, in late 1965, with negotiations between the United Kingdom and Rhodesia at an impasse, Smith ( according to his autobiography Bitter Harvest ) had authorized a committee under Cabinet Secretary Gerald B. Clarke to look at historical independence declarations to come up with a suitable version for Rhodesia in the event of a UDI having to be declared.

During the resulting Nullification Crisis in late 1832 and early 1833, as the Senate's president pro tempore ( the leader of the Senate in the absence of the Vice President ), White coordinated negotiations in the interim between the resignation of Vice President John C. Calhoun ( December 28, 1832 ) and the swearing in of Vice President Martin Van Buren ( March 4, 1833 ).

Meanings were chosen to fit perceived needs: commercial negotiations, military terms for military codes, diplomatic terms for diplomatic codes, any and all of the preceding for espionage codes.

He took part in the negotiations preceding the Peace of Utrecht.

In the negotiations preceding the Peace of Utrecht, Harcourt took an important part.

After many days of trying negotiations, which at times made it seem it would be impossible to form any German government whatsoever, the Minister of Finance of the preceding government, Dr. Joseph Wirth, managed to form a coalition cabinet willing to accept the ultimatum as it stood ( May 10 ).

In 1945, during the negotiations preceding the adoption of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in 1947, limited international competition obligations were proposed within the Charter for an International Trade Organisation.

During the period immediately preceding the final negotiations with the Fed, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder went into the hospital.

He played an active part in the negotiations preceding the outbreak of World War I, and was, in particular, concerned in the German relations with Austria, having been the first member of the Imperial Government in Berlin to become acquainted with the terms of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia.

After he had made sure that his forces had sufficiently recovered from the reverses they had suffered in the preceding months, he broke off negotiations, using as a pretext the killing by the Italians of patriots in another locality.

In conformity with the aforementioned determination and in accordance with the negotiations advocated by the United Nations with the affected parties, Spain will proceed forthwith to institute a temporary administration in the Territory, in which Morocco and Mauritania will participate in collaboration with the Djemaa and to which will be transferred all the responsibilities and powers referred to in the preceding paragraph.

The FARC had been participating on and off in negotiations with both of the preceding administrations, but the climate had turned sour and dangerous, amid which each party blamed the other for bloody acts of political violence, breaches of a declared cease fire and other mutual recriminations.