Our system is deeply stressed, our financial and our natural resources are limited and our needs are not negotiable.

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Immediate demands and needs are not negotiable and leave little room for error.

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Some of the most fertile negotiation situations are those that people think are unmovable or not negotiable to begin with.

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As such, they are not negotiable in any Middle East peace conference.

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Let me be clear, these terms are not negotiable.

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But the nuclear issue is not negotiable.

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Minimum quantity and pricing are not negotiable.

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They are not negotiable.

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This is not really negotiable: if there is no path to recovery for these countries, either Germany has to bail them out indefinitely or the eurozone breaks apart.

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And it's not only the amount of severance pay that is negotiable.

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