Making even minor changes to labour laws can involve endless negotiations between government, unions and employers all fighting tooth and nail to defend their interests.

That would mean endless negotiations over policies and spending plans, with little chance of delivering the economic revolution he craves.

We enter into endless negotiations about everything from bedtime to leaving the park.

Despite endless negotiations with ministers and officials, many agreements have stalled after being mired in local political battles.

After all this success, quite a lot of correspondences with different big record-companies began, and the rest of 1999 went with endless negotiations without results.