They were no good as bargaining chips, because there was no one with whom to bargain.

And, in any coming showdown, we must hope that all leaders will refuse to use innocent people s lives as bargaining chips.

But it faces an uncertain political future. If a power struggle emerges, the large Bushehr reactor could be used as a bargaining chip.

Gareth Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister, has called it a powerful diplomatic tool, while theWashington Post has called for the warrant to be used as a bargaining chip with Mr. Bashir and his Chinese and Arab allies.

Bargaining is highly centralized and often the government participates to coordinate fiscal policy.

Belarus s reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment and we all fade as a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

The representative of the Tebtebba Foundation, in her concluding remarks, recommended that the present paper be used as a background paper.

Moreover, sometimes they say that they do not want to give away a bargaining chip prematurely.

Holding onto territory as a bargaining chip makes less sense if there is no one with whom to bargain.

And Homo sapiens are one small leaf on a very extensive Tree of Life, which is densely populated by organisms that have been honed for survival over millions of years.

A report of the workshop is available on the Ozone Secretariat website and will be available as a background document at the meeting.

Louisbourg was an important bargaining chip in the peace negotiations to end the war, since it represented a major British success.

The group agreed to disseminate the document as a technical paper (FCCC TP 2005 4) for reference by LDCs, other Parties and agencies.

As surviving firms gain in size, Chinese businesses may exercise more bargaining power vis à vis the Chinese government and foreign firms.

But, so long as Russia is perceived as an energy blackmailer and not a partner, such cooperation will be impossible.

It may be a Faustian bargain prosperity in exchange for political obedience but so far it has worked.

For example, you are sitting in Las Vegas, and you're betting, and you let the other guys peek this card by mistake. Feel, it's just the regular, one card.

They need to look at a text and when it is done, if it looks like a white paper or like a memo on an event and you are trying to connect with people.

When Daimler Chrysler increased work hours from 35 to 40 hours in its research and development center, the dam broke and other bargaining agreements fell into line.

What Ahmedinejad appears to want are bargaining chips to secure the release of 6 Iranians who were aiding the Iraqi insurgency before being captured by the US.

Moreover, from a diplomatic standpoint, the territories were regarded as bargaining chips ( land for peace ) to be used in achieving a negotiated solution.

We share the view that it would be a mistake to treat human rights as though there were a trade off to be made between them and such goals as security or development.

Rather than launching an uncompromising campaign to defeat the insurgents, Santos has pursued the more politically challenging course a negotiated settlement.

7 More details about the activities of CPF members in relation to this thematic element, and others, are available in the CPF frameworks, submitted to the Forum as information papers.

Despite the trials and tribulations of the American economy, dollar securities remain the dominant form of reserves because of the unparalleled depth and liquidity of US markets.

Negotiation is necessary, and it must be sufficient, but progress will be impossible if North Korea is allowed to turn its mere participation in the six party talks into a bargaining chip.

Consequently, our delegation considers that the so called 2005 world summit outcome document is valid only as a working paper and that reference to it does not give rise to any obligation or mandate for the Republic, since we consider it null and void.

And to do this, I knew that I had to see the way in which artists work, understand the artist's studio as a laboratory, imagine, then, reinventing the museum as a think tank and looking at the exhibition as the ultimate white paper asking questions, providing the space to look and to think about answers.

In the meantime, the Tories risk losing their way on a crucial issue reform of the relationship between the eurozone and non euro EU members if they try to use it as leverage to renegotiate the various European treaties.

Moreover, Russia, still traumatized by its Cold War defeat, wants to maintain the Syria Iran axis as a key bargaining chip in its difficult relations with the West, while both it and China are simply weary of the West s naiveté.

2005 saw the return of seemingly buried territorial disputes, such as defining the maritime limits between Chile and Peru, as well as the revanchist pressures that are mounting in Bolivia for recovering access to the sea that was lost in the 19th century, an urge strengthened by Bolivia s growing willingness to perhaps use its gas exports as a pressure point.