The president's approach on the ABM treaty should be to negotiate revisions with Moscow, or to seek an agreement to set aside the treaty as outdated.

After his Jiuquan assignment, Paul was called upon by agents of Leopold II of Belgium to use his understanding of Chinese language and protocol to negotiate revisions to a contract for the construction of the Beijing Hankou railway.

By this time, Japan had been able to negotiate revisions of the unequal treaties with the Western powers and had in 1902 formed an alliance with the world's leading power, Britain.

James gave Ayala authority to negotiate extensions and revisions.

He is negotiating revisions to the legislation.

At their next summit meeting in Dublin on April 28, however, they must answer the European Parliament's request to negotiate revisions to the treaties that define its powers.

Washington needs to leave sufficient time for negotiating possible revisions, which would have to be ratified by Congress and Russia's Parliament.

Nor did she seek to loosen the ban on the sheik's communications when she negotiated revisions to the rules with Mr. Fitzgerald over the coming months.

In December the developer, citing "economic infeasibility," dropped the project after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate revisions in the contract.