Once a contract is signed, neither side will be allowed to go back on it.
The tone in the two days of meetings is said to have been more constructive and less extreme than the public rhetoric, with neither side drawing lines in the sand.
Experts suggest neither side wants a protracted conflict.
The debate can only be a fair one if neither side has an unfair advantage.
The alternative is escalating the fight to the Supreme Court, and there is little appetite for that; neither side has a clear road to victory.
This shows that despite improvement in relations, neither side is able to gain the full trust of the other side.
While neither side would say if progress is being made, the frequency of the discussions seems a good sign.
And he managed to try out on Nixon the project that he had sprung on me weeks earlier, an agreement that neither side would use nuclear weapons against the other.
And neither side will even talk about tax increases, though it is impossible to achieve long-term fiscal stability without them.
In this "cooling" period, neither side can resort to war or increase armed forces.
Think of it like a seesaw — neither side is touching the ground because the weight on each side is identical.
Even now, neither side seems able to let the wound heal.
that they should strictly respect and observe the line of actual control in the border areas and neither side should overstep the line of actual control in their activities pending ultimate resolution of the boundary question;
If both parties are involved in doing difficult but necessary things, neither side can make political capital at the expense of the other and trade-offs can be made.
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