At present, any delegation can veto proposals, undoing weeks of painstaking negotiations.

It was assembled through painstaking negotiation with all kinds of organizations.

After 18 months of painstaking negotiations, Nelson managed to get the bill passed by Congress on June 24, 1898.

The accord, worked out in more than two years of painstaking negotiations, speaks volumes about the changing relationship between environmental groups and industry.

Over the next 46 hours, through painstaking negotiations, he was persuaded to release 15 of the 21 children in batches.

Differences over the fraud issue do not justify scuttling the overall bill, the product of year-long, painstaking negotiations.

To fully implement the peace accord, you are looking at months of painstaking negotiations, village by village.

It had taken about six months of slow and painstaking negotiation.

The documents showed painstaking negotiations over the payoffs, followed by secret contracts.

Efforts to acquire the land involved long, painstaking negotiations.