Earlier this month, cease-fire negotiations quickly began and ended.

The show was saved only by cease-fire negotiations at intermission.

He wants the cease-fire negotiations to take place in Managua.

"Nothing is going to happen here until something significant happens down there," he said referring to the cease-fire negotiations.

Hamas considered Shalit's status to be entirely separate from the cease-fire negotiations themselves.

When Nicaragua entered into cease-fire negotiations and reached an agreement with the contras, this "key issue" was dropped from the agenda as no longer serviceable.

It has greater potential for Central America's long-term stability than the cease-fire negotiations.

In the polarized environment of the Middle East, though, such bread-and-butter economic discussion is rarer than cease-fire negotiations.

The man who marched his industry's C.E.O.'s into cease-fire negotiations with the states was marching them back to war.

That could include asking Congress to put military aid in escrow, for use if the cease-fire negotiations failed.