Calling on an arbitrator to simply pick one side or another is also seriously flawed. Clearly both sides have rejected the latest offers, so forcing an all or nothing decision is merely a game of brinkmanship that won't address the real issues of the dispute - quality. Again, students will be the biggest losers.
Quotes about brinkmanship (9 Quotes)
With a few exceptions, these guys were not major, major players. They've tried to use brinkmanship and now their bluff has been called. By enforcing its deadlines, the administration has shown that they were willing to cut the Sunnis off.
A further deterioration of the situation in Nigeria, or escalation of nuclear brinkmanship with the Iranians, could push the (New York) price of crude further to 70 dollars.
We heard the overture in June, the fanfare in July - and now we really do hope we have heard part of the final chord. After all the brinkmanship, this is good news.
John Foster Dulles invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.
After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
I think the time for brinkmanship is over. I think people realize now that we are in the end game and people will hopefully come forward with their bottom line positions so that we can wrap this up.
The states are too high to continue down a dangerous path of diplomatic brinkmanship,