bring (someone or something) to the bargaining table

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bring (someone or something) to the bargaining table

To induce another person or group to negotiate or attempt to reach an agreement or solution. This phrase is typically applied to people or groups in conflict. We need to bring that country to the bargaining table and finally resolve this conflict.

See also: bargain, bring, table

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As a result, he offers readers insight into the plenum meetings of the Communist Party Central Committee and Hanoi's strategic direction for VC and North Vietnamese army regiments designed to quickly and decisively defeat US and South Vietnamese forces and bring them to the bargaining table. Spreading his analysis to the tactical level of VC warfare, Wilkins underlines the practice of these main-force VC units "hugging" American units in both offensive and defensive actions to separate the American GI from the greatest tool in his inventory-supporting arms.

Grab Their Belts to Fight Them: The Viet Cong's Big-Unit War against the U.S., 1965-1966