| However, just after the end of exams, there was a proposal from AUS to withhold your exam marks as a bargaining chip in their negotiations. |
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| They've done that in the past, using salaried concessions as a bargaining chip in talks with the union. |
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| But now, as some companies use a potential IPO as a bargaining chip in acquisition talks, that discount is disappearing. |
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| He and Marlon Byrd make a very good combination, giving Ed Wade a serious bargaining chip in negotiations. |
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| Some think he should challenge Brown to give Blairites a political bargaining chip. |
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| As far as they are concerned, the prisoners are simply a bargaining chip in the negotiations with the government. |
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| To a certain degree, the House provision for tax refunds to corporations was meant as a bargaining chip for negotiations with the Senate. |
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| Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a peace agreement. |
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| Instead, SIPTU is expected to use the threat of industrial action as a bargaining chip in negotiations over redundancy deals. |
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| The union stated this week that its intention was to use the strike as a bargaining chip to resume negotiations. |
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| But it has kept its options open as a bargaining chip during port company negotiations over the legislation. |
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| It developed a nuclear program to deter U. S. attacks, but it also needed a bargaining chip to trade for status, cash, and other goodies. |
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| It is not just a product, and it is not a bargaining chip to be bartered away in exchange for some trade advantage. |
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| It should also be unacceptable that young people use denunciation as a bargaining chip to obtain a pardon. |
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| While some commented that this was a bargaining chip, others considered it a time bomb which could disrupt the entire negotiations. |
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| In the 20th century, Vietnam's claim became a bargaining chip in the broader struggle for control of the country. |
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| In reality, Armenia is trying to keep Kelbadjar as a bargaining chip with regard to the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. |
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| More often than not, human rights are used as a bargaining chip in international trade. |
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| But a decision to sell off its shopping centre interest would be a major surprise as it gives the council a huge bargaining chip in negotiations over town-centre regeneration. |
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| Of course it is also possible, as Guillermoprieto believes, that Pastrana has requested U.S. funds to use as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. |
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| Ms Yingluck and her family have become the junta's main bargaining chip in a bold bid to expunge the Shinawatras from politics, once and for all. |
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| That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar. |
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| Gun control advocates have told me the assault weapons ban was intended to be a bargaining chip. |
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| Instead of seeing it as a bargaining chip, perhaps we should treat the GOP proposal as a serious governing document. |
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| However, rather than engage in hasty strike action SIPTU is expected to use the threat of disruption as a bargaining chip in forthcoming restructuring negotiations. |
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| Maintenance, in my view, will always remain a bargaining chip in the power struggle between parents no matter how much we try to change it. |
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| The UN, like all other political organizations, is first and foremost a place where power is the main bargaining chip. |
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| If you could develop it, at least you had some resources you could use as a trade-off and a bargaining chip when you're fighting with OPEC or other suppliers. |
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| This is particularly the case when a letter of reference is withheld as a negotiating tool or bargaining chip in exchange for acceptance of a severance package. |
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| Human rights must not be used as a means of pressure or, unduly politicized, as a kind of bargaining chip to escape criticism or come out on top, regardless of the consequences. |
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| Freedom is used merely as a bargaining chip. |
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| To the other provinces, it was a bargaining chip. |
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| What specific commitments will arise from the preventive provisions of the Pact, which are to some extent a bargaining chip for the relaxation of rules in other areas? |
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| The implication in the rapporteur's report that this regulation may have been delayed because it was being used as a bargaining chip is very worrying. |
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| He felt that the team had lost a valuable bargaining chip with this announcement and the Minister should not have advanced the First Nation these funds. |
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| I hope you will allow me to remind you all that the fruit and vegetable sector is the great bargaining chip in the European Union's agricultural negotiations within the World Trade Organisation. |
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| However, it is essential to emphasise that this initiative should be seen within the context of the policies of the EU, which may reduce it to a bargaining chip or condition for imposing its economic interests. |
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| Also, some developing country governments now see labour rights as a bargaining chip in bilateral negotiations, trading commitments to progress in this area for concessions in other areas. |
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| Debates on Darfur and trying to get agreement on Darfur were used as a political bargaining chip or as a lever to try and get agreement on other resolutions. |
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| What we expect from the world is that our will should be respected and that this should not to be used as a negotiating tool, or as a bargaining chip in international relations. |
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| Other government ministers have accused the Chief Electoral Officer of abusing his powers by launching the investigation as a bargaining chip over a civil lawsuit. |
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| This gives the Brazilians a bargaining chip. |
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| It seems to have been used as a bargaining chip, and it has taken no account of a sector that employs more than 60 000 fisherman and provides for some 400 000 jobs in the industry in that area. |
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| It will be difficult then for Canada to negotiate meaningful change in the next round of the WTO for the steel sector, now that it has used up its major bargaining chip. |
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| Friendship with the West is a sham and the provocations in the Baltic countries will continue, to be used as a bargaining chip in a deal with the West on the issue of Chechnya. |
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| The official hinted that this could be a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Russians. |
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| South Korea has said it's believes its neighbour is trying to use a test as a bargaining chip with the US to win concessions. |
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| Hamas has arrested the spokesman of a Mideast group holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston, a move that could give it a bargaining chip to secure the Briton's release. |
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| Analysts say the North is using the two journalists as a bargaining chip. |
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| Holding the Zhengtong Emperor in captivity was a useless bargaining chip for the Oirats as long as another sat on his throne, so they released him back into Ming China. |
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