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At least make use of them as a bargaining chip.

"We have what might be called their main bargaining chip."

Clearly, she felt her side now had a major bargaining chip.

Seems to me I can use it as a bargaining chip.

But this was the only time I could use it as a bargaining chip.

What will be used as bargaining chips in the negotiations?

"We'd like to give some balance and bargaining chips to the state."

But what he has done is to create a valuable bargaining chip out of nothing.

The point is, we're going to use a young innocent as a bargaining chip.

But now that we have a bargaining chip, they're going to go crazy.

"Once these trees come down, we lose our bargaining chips."

Another bargaining chip: Consider getting multiple services from one company.

"They do not appear to be building bargaining chips," one Administration official said.

"They want to use this as some kind of bargaining chip," the official said.

"They only want him to use as a bargaining chip in future negotiations," he said.

We got us a Russian, and that's a bargaining chip too.

Please God he doesn't use them as some sort of bargaining chip in negotiations.

To give up their only bargaining chip would be foolish, they say.

District officials criticized the parents for using their children as bargaining chips.

He may also want to hold on to the land as a bargaining chip in negotiating other issues.

"It's far too important a national security and economic issue to be used as a bargaining chip for other matters."

The question is, what kind of bargaining chips can they create?"

Since then, the practice has been used as a bargaining chip in the bidding process.

The rest are bargaining chips, we can use 'em to show good will.

Ariel decided to risk her only bargaining chip in an effort to turn things around.