But they depended on Bell as an expert and a negotiator, fluent in Arabic and used to the schisms and vendettas of the region.
The negotiator added that she told him she “liked to watch them squirm around after they had been shot.”
We need look no further than Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) himself, the chief GOP negotiator on this deal.
The chief Iranian negotiator, Saeed Jalili, then characterized uranium enrichment as an “irrefutable” right.
He says the negotiator was sent to Qatar without clear instructions, and his communications to Quetta effectively went unanswered.
What sort of a negotiator can he make who is too late at a minister's dinner?
Rhodes offered his own services as negotiator, and they were accepted.
Tergiversations were discovered on the part of the British negotiator.
He had long been preeminently distinguished as a negotiator.
In the talents of a negotiator, on the other hand, he has never been surpassed.
1590s, "businessman," from Latin negotiator "one who carries on business by wholesale," from negotiatus, past participle of negotiari (see negotiation). Meaning "one who carries on negotiations" is from c.1600.
"to communicate in search of mutual agreement," 1590s, back-formation from negotiation, or else from Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari. In the sense of "tackle successfully" (1862), it at first meant "to clear on horseback a hedge, fence, or other obstacle" and "originated in the hunting-field; those who hunt the fox like also to hunt jocular verbal novelties" [Gowers, 1965]. Related: Negotiated; negotiating.