Both sides said the negotiations had foundered over a legal issue, but they refused to explain the exact cause of the breakdown.

These negotiations foundered, however, and the city redrew the plans again - now with a programmatically functionalist plan.

Soon afterward, however, the negotiations almost foundered because Columbia was unable to find a suitable apartment.

Only a small number of core players were recruited before negotiations foundered.

A freeze on settlement construction had never been a precondition to peace talks before, and as a result, negotiations foundered.

But the plan to play elsewhere was struck down in court, and negotiations over a new arena foundered.

Another interesting point here is the suggestion that the negotiations foundered on the rock of agricultural issues.

It was on this very issue that the original negotiations foundered.

But the main issue on which the negotiations foundered was federalism.

The job was offered to one candidate, these people said, but the negotiations foundered.