2. Complete the sentences with the right words.

Tough, stance, deadlocked, impasse, aggressive stance, veto, compromised, concede, compromise, concession.

Yet while some club chairmen are taking a … …, others are now more wary of confrontation – worried about the financial implications to the clubs themselves if suddenly there were no games.

She is either so confident of her strength that she feels she can get away with such an,________ or so committed to her underlying beliefs about Europe that she feels compelled to speak her mind regardless of the consequences.

Prince Sihanouk has put forward a________ proposal to break the deadlock in peace talks being held by the Supreme National Council in Bangkok.

The conference is still ___________ over the Americans’ refusal to agree to provide extra money.

Whenever the Democrats have __________, the White House negotiating team has said, ‘Thank you very much. Now let’s start over and compromise what’s left.’

Featherstone rejected two offers from Halifax, and refused to ________ any significant price_________ to Leeds.

The Latvians are confident that these talks will continue, thus avoiding the ‘no concessions, no talks’ that exists between Moscow and Vilnius. One recent EC rule on air pollution would cost Spain Plats 300 billion to enforce, according to Spanish officials – if it had not used its_____ to win a let-out for its factories to continue burning dirty brown coal. Spain likes those bits of political union that come free.

2. Compromise or deadlock? Match the two parts of these extracts.

1. After Lucas described the character to his collaborator, Steven Spielberg,	a. remained deadlocked. And neither side appears hopeful of a breakthrough.
2. But after five hours of talks, the British government’s political initiative for Northern Ireland	b. compromise with China’s current rulers.
3. If Clintonism were ever to exist, it would describe the art of picking a lka carte from his favorite policy menus.	c. deadlocked over the thorny problem of reforming El Salvador’s US-baked military.
4. Officially there has been no change in Taiwan’s standing policy of ‘three noes’:	d. In Arkansas he has compromised so much that even at 45 he is the longest-serving governor in the country.
5. Talks between El Salvador’s leftist rebels and government representatives remain	e. no contact, no compromise, and no negotiation.
6. The 55-day budget deadlock in new York State has been broken.	f. The government and state lawmakers reached a tentative agreement last night.
7. The Dalai Lama evidently has little hope of	g. the two men compromised on ‘someone like Harrison Ford’.

Unit 6 Advertising

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