A performer with such a track record might negotiate an advance against royalties of around $1 million.

Right now, we are negotiating against ourselves.

I'd never want to negotiate against him.

"You can't negotiate against yourself," the source said.

"I am not going to negotiate literally, legislatively, on the air, against myself," he said.

When those refused to negotiate a strike against landowners and against state taxes broke out over a large part of western Sicily.

It leaves the city negotiating against itself.

We cannot negotiate against the science of nature.

We cannot negotiate against the scientific advice, and this is the minimum: to reach an agreement compatible with the 2 C objective.

"Then they're negotiating against a deadline," he said.