And they agree that failure would send a worse signal than not having negotiated at all.

I don't like to hear that because that is a bad signal.

"What the mayor's doing is sending a bad signal," he said.

If this indicator held to historic form, a move up to 4.4 percent would be a really bad signal.

He added, "Working beyond the conventional age of 65 would send a bad signal to the organization, and to the financial community."

A bad signal, perhaps, triggered by something in the mother's endocrine system.

This may be a bad signal, but not necessarily so.

It is a bad signal to send to rural areas.

That would send the worst possible signal to the citizens of Europe and the world in general.

"This is a bad signal sent to the rest of the world."