skillful negotiating

This success has undoubtedly been achieved thanks to the combination of the rapporteur's rigour and skillful negotiating.

As a result of the skillful negotiating done by Mr. Wall's predecessors, wages and conditions were in accord with American standards; American ships sailed the seven seas.

Sir Theophilus Shepstone, who annexed the Transvaal for Britain, was present at Cetshwayo's coronation, but turned on the Zulus as he felt he was undermined by Cetshwayo's skillful negotiating for land area compromised by encroaching Boers.