bargain counter

Votes can be used as bargaining counters for future needs.

They operated the first bargain counter during the civil war.

But this time he was to use Anne as a bargaining counter in a treaty.

The whole operation is a bargaining counter, to win something from Terra.

I told you before, we don't make bargaining counters out of thinking beings.

Even the demand for independence might be advanced as primarily a bargaining counter.

In setting up this exhibition was he, perhaps, attempting to create some kind of bargaining counter?

He used the point as a strong bargaining counter."

"Have you nothing you could offer me as a bargaining counter?

"The point about hostages is that those who have them can use them as bargaining counters."

"But don't you see, now there's nothing further we can use it for except a bargaining counter?

Would keep it as her final bargaining counter.

The two issues may be on the bargain counter, but both rate no better than a cautious "hold" recommendation at some brokerage houses.

This fellow Bonaparte is holding them as bargaining counters.

Instead, their experts gave the game to the insurance people at the start, thus surrendering a big, big bargaining counter.

"And we've thrown away our only bargaining counter."

"Well, the only other bargaining counter is hostages.

They almost certainly regard them as bargaining counters."

I personally, all by myself, furnished Aycharaych as a bargaining counter.

A good bargaining counter, should we need one?'

"He's our prisoner, and we might as well keep him alive, for he could be a useful bargaining counter if we are in trouble later."

To them, abortion is an abstract concept - an article of religious doctrine or a bargaining counter exploited for political gain.

"That would be to go to Saddam Hussein's tactics and use human beings as bargaining counters," she said.

Very well, you have taken one bargaining counter, but what will you do about Santa Rosa?

That gives us a powerful bargaining counter.