Of course, Obama's team will have been told about the "provocation cycle, " that unfortunate fact that the U.S. and its allies will sit down to the table with North Korea within six months of any provocation.
And so we are working to try to strengthen the ability of both parties to sit down across the table and to begin serious negotiations.
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And we agreed to coordinate closely in encouraging the parties to sit down around the negotiating table and to resolve this issue in a way that creates a Palestinian state that is sovereign and an Israeli state that is secure, the two states living side by side in peace.
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So I think what the President has asked GM to do today is to sit down and go back to that table, re-plan and come back again, and we'll certainly make a determination.
Both we and Iran, both governments today, will be bringing a lot of emotional, political baggage to the negotiating table when we sit down eventually and try to talk.
"We're not going to be forced to sit down at the table, " says ESPN programmer Ronald Semiao.
Is America entering a new era in which ideaological oppononets rise above the rhetoric and sit down at the negotiating table to hammer out their differences in lieu of pointed media and political attacks?
It makes it nearly impossible for people who have legitimate but bridgeable differences to sit down at the same table and hash things out.
Stronger sanction pressure, which some of our partners see almost as a goal in itself, will not encourage Iran to sit down at the negotiating table.
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And that is that the American people would like to see Democrats and Republicans sit down at a table, be it here, be it there, and work through important solutions to the problems that face the American people.
Whether or not the Ulster Unionists sit down at the table opposite Sinn Fein, only agree to attend if they can sit in another room, or refuse to talk to anyone but the British government, may not matter that much.
Once the class is over, the participants sit down at the family's dinner table to enjoy what they have prepared together.
The first candidate to sit down at the dark-stained conference table was a Chinese-American, from Washington state, named Andrew Hsu.
They always have been, and I'm willing to sit down with anybody and sit across the table, and let's have an exchange, and let's find out if - they may have some good ideas, too, and if they do, bring them on in, because we're looking for the best solution we can.
And as a professional negotiation coach, I know what that mindset can do to people and companies before they formally sit down at the negotiation table.
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When the last of them has been nominated and confirmed, Congress should sit them down at a witness table (or tables) and ask them to agree on a few points.
By the time I went to sit down, there were only three empty seats left at this very long table of perhaps sixty people.
After a half hour of cigarette-sharing and photo-snapping, the commander led us back down the trail to a roofed, open-walled meeting area with a table where he bade us sit and brought us tea.
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