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• n  a negotiation between enemies
• v  discuss, as between enemies

• The Second International Opium Conference at Geneva (the longest parley in the history of the League of Nations), which suffered its ups and downs for three months (PTI, Nov .
• Such open theological aggression is rare in post-Holocaust interfaith parley--or buried amid affirmations of commonality and practical issues like those impacting the state of .
• The Soviet Union last week grudgingly accepted the West's invitation to a Big Four parley at the summit.

News & Articles

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• Dealmaker Reid says no one in D.C. will play along, but would they?
  Legislation, as Sen. Harry Reid often says, is the art of compromise. But lately, Reid is not in a compromising mood. “Who would I negotiate with?” Reid said in an interview with the Sun last week, when asked about his recently expressed reticence to parley with Republicans over how to keep student loan rates from rising on July 1, an issue on which Republicans and Reid’s Democrats differ. “I ...
  June 16, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun

Quotes

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• Winston Churchill in Thaindian.com (blog)
  It was possible, therefore, for the viceroy to "parley on equal terms", as Winston Churchill said in dismay, with a "half-naked fakir".
• Avi Dichter in Jerusalem Post
  The Annapolis peace parley is not a scientific experiment and the Israeli people are not guinea pigs,Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said overnight Saturday, in an AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference in Philadelphia.
• Jaswant Singh in Daily Times
  He (PM) should, with equal ease and informality, discuss this matter with the leaders of the Opposition......and take the country in confidence as to the nature of the crisis that has arisen persuading him to so parley with a US senator,...