How To Use Compromise In A Sentence

While maintaining a level of accessibility and providing information are important, this must not dumb the work down, compromise the artists' intentions, or remove the challenge aspect of art that many people thrive on.
One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised. Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
Accordingly he compromised by saying that while the present world as it is is not eternal, it came from a primitive "hyle" or matter, which was eternal. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
Disclosure of information would compromise the proper conduct of the investigation.

Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
The final proposals were a rather unsuccessful compromise between the need for profitability and the demands of local conservationists.
In the end the sentence-for criminal conspiracy, corruption and bribery-was a compromise.
The spokesman made it evident that no compromise was yet in sight.
Make a boot disk in case your computer is damaged or compromised
In addition to the scholarly work of the study, he wrote Horace's Compromise to address its findings to a broader audience.
There were tensions between tradition and Christianity, but there were also compromises and accommodations, a fusion of cultures.
Without the change, dissenters could argue that, given the Senate numbers, compromise was essential.
There were, Pfeiffer said, several unresolved issues with the long-term omnibus bill, chief among them policy riders that would alter previously passed legislation and compromise executive powers. In Budget Negotiations, White House Throws A Curve Ball On Omnibus Bill
I strongly urge him to do so, if he can reach a sensible and reasonable compromise.
The deal that the company has done with the unions will compromise to some extent its ability to reduce staffing.
The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise.
Nigel, by opting out of the computer course, had already made his compromise with ambitious dreams.
Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.
Democratic leadership sources admitted that a major motivation for keeping the senators at the Capitol is to keep negotiations going and reach a compromise on a proposed public health care option. Obama to the Capitol Hill Sunday
The word compromise had no place in her vocabulary - she lived on her terms and when she could no longer do so, she preferred to die rather than become an appendage to someone else's life.
What we do need is a sense of justice that doesn't succumb to moral purity or compromise with political power (and today, that means spinmeisters more than the tyrants).
Can the two sides reach a compromise?
The issue for her critics is the extent to which her populist approach has compromised the channel's public-service remit.
The government has said that there will be no compromise with terrorists.
Luxembourg sketched out an acceptable compromise between Britain, France and Germany.
He is forbidden, in fact, to be himself a good citizen; forbidden to be anything more than the colourless instrument of a system of compromise and countercheck. Irish Books and Irish People
The last is particularly common in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients undergoing anti-cancer chemotherapy.
Moreover, Valla's insistence on the will as the locus of moral behavior seems compromised by the predestinarianism advocated by the interlocutor “Lorenzo” in his dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Will). Lorenzo Valla
At what point does a good idea become compromised by the thought of how best to make money?
What was it like to live with moral compromise? Times, Sunday Times
The body has only a few arteries but many veins, so removing one or two does not compromise the circulatory system. Times, Sunday Times
So police officers are being compromised by being pressurised to lie and then being pressurised to drive in a way that could result in death or bodily injury to themselves or to innocent members of public who you have sworn to protect all so that someone snotty superintendent can get a bung from the Home Office Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Reciprocity, the favorite word of Netanyahu, requires consultation and compromise on both sides, not unilateral moves by either.
The model will be used to explore these energy strategies which might form the basis of acceptable compromises.
Compromises and concessions need to be reached on both sides, so that whatever choices are made about family and career are mutually acceptable and agreeable.
It's a compromise between two logically irreconcilable positions.
This latest round of cultural subversion fatally compromised Wall Street's ability to hold its own against New Deal reformers.
Once elected, the pressure group spokesman becomes a politician, whose business is compromise, not ideological purity.
Gentle to have, but not compromise, I want to be in quiet, not strong.
For example, in earlier studies, sleep disturbances have been associated with a compromised immune system.
Responding correctly to a mirror image requires the creation of a rather peculari form of dual representation or 'mental diplopia', and this subtle ability may be compromised by the right parietal lesion. I Can't Reach It; It's Inside the Mirror.
It is your special responsibility, dear monks, to be living examples of this interior and profound relationship with him, implementing without compromise the program that your founder summarized in the "nihil amori Christi praeponere" [put nothing before the love of Christ.] (Rule 4.21). More from Montecassino
Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
roominess in this size car is always a compromise
A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise.
The price means obvious but acceptable compromises. The Sun
It's about time we sorted a sensible compromise and not a draconian law.
Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear.
After much haggling and horse-trading, a compromise is hammered out that satisfies few but allows each minister to claim that it could have been much worse.
The failure of a laboratory's computer system has the potential to disrupt work flow, compromise business interests, and delay or perturb patient care.
But analysts say compromises on wage and pension rises are likely.
The foreign ministers have thrashed out a suitable compromise formula.
People worry that their hospital or rubbish collection service will somehow be compromised. Times, Sunday Times
An uncompromising self-absorption which alienates others and compromises the well-being of all.
State-Zionism is an ideology based on an absolute conviction, one impervious to history and experience, to emendation and to compromise.
He gave no indication that he was ready to compromise.
Might that be no more than a coded way of drawing attention to an ability to accept compromise, an omnivorousness, and a variety of output that makes his oeuvre - in the language of the motor industry - somehow unintegrated?
But several instances have come to my knowledge, in which Union men of a sterner cast than those described as acquiescing compromisers were defeated in the election, and, aside from Report on the Condition of the South
Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise.
An often acceptable compromise is local manufacture or assembly by a multinational company.
It may be the birth of a new era of consensus and compromise government. Times, Sunday Times
However, you should not lose heart or compromise over an issue based on principle.
While Curzon showed him every courtesy, Kitchener treated his willingness to compromise as weakness.
In the last six months alone it has compromised stolen login credential of more than 100,000 bank accounts, the researchers noted. A Huge Cache of Stolen Financial Data - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
If Democrats and Republican moderates can stand against full repeal, they also need to stand against a bad compromise.
For the first season ever I have started skipping the results show and am feeling a little guilty about my waning loyalty - your vlog was the perfect compromise. "American Idol" results -- vlogged!
The manifesto was many things to many artists and tended to seek a compromise among the various concepts of the fourth dimension.
Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
Both were still in their early twenties; both were headstrong characters who refused to compromise. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
They also compromise routing performance by dedicating CPU cycles to aggregation chores.
Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar.
In practice the consumption of cannabis was decriminalized: a British compromise that continues to defy logic. The Times Literary Supplement
There was no indication that any were given to compromise. THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
A compromise was reached whereby Lapsley would commit himself not to publicly associate with the ANC, while he would not have to "foreswear" his ANC membership. Contents
Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible.
Willingness to negotiate and compromise, when appropriate, helps regain control of an explosive situation.
There is no prospect of compromise in sight.
So he compromised on a very exclusive hotel patronized by legislators who had money of their own, by many of the titled attaches of the embassies, and by families that came during the season with the hope of edging their way into official society. The Slim Princess
It may be the birth of a new era of consensus and compromise government. Times, Sunday Times
I am prepared to make some concession on minor details, but I cannot compromise on fundamentals.
How can you sell someone content on media that is so heavily compromised, especially on a format that so heavily relies upon its error correction system to maintain playability? Boing Boing: July 30, 2006 - August 5, 2006 Archives
By September, Ambassador Habib produced a political compromise.
The software appeared to be a. sys component hiding behind a rootkit, which is software that is designed to hide the fact that a computer has been compromised, according to Trend Micro. P2pnet World Headlines – April 9, 2009
Polly Vernon measures out her relationships in three-minute songbites and asks if there's a compromise between resolutely Rock and completely, madly Pop
People worry that their hospital or rubbish collection service will somehow be compromised. Times, Sunday Times
Compromise is an inevitable part of marriage.
You can't compromise with crumble, though, and I was only willing to order it if it came with custard, which it didn't.
The debate can't be sidestepped by saying that whenever A disagrees with B, we should compromise by going with B's position.
Adware maker 180 solutions has sued seven former distributors for using networks of compromised computers to surreptitiously install its software on users' PCs.
You can make a compromise that allows the partnership to run more smoothly. The Sun
Typically, urgent intervention is not indicated for urolithiasis, but it may be necessary if the upper urinary tract is obstructed and infected, the renal function is compromised, or there is intractable pain or vomiting.
In the early days of television, the engineers who designed and built TV picture tubes faced technical problems that caused them to make some compromises.
It will certainly be less hassle to come to a sensible compromise on this, rather than getting involved in a legal wrangle. Times, Sunday Times
This week's emotionally intense, all or nothing energy inclines people towards radical solutions and massive rejigs rather than compromises or incremental steps.
My husband and I have mismatched libidos and try to compromise with one another.
We propose an alternative measure of tax incidence that provides a practical compromise between the use of annual income and of lifetime income.
Concrete decisions on vital improvements to the road, rail and air networks have taken decades and too regularly turned out to be an ill-judged compromise between opposing interest groups.
It is more a mode of address for a slightly iffy constitutional compromise that is drawing peacefully towards its close.
On the basis of the study, the researchers said that the health of the youngest siblings could be compromised in adulthood. Times, Sunday Times
So back and forth went the stiff haggling till we reached a compromise.
We can not compromise on this.
The administration is amenable to a compromise.
We acknowledge that political compromise may indeed explain the typical process surrounding the implementation of major change in most organizations.
Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.
After months of negotiations, they have reached an uneasy compromise.
Yet despite a third-act plunge into compromised stodge (which is unsurprising considering its star names), there's some surprisingly edgy humour at work in this darker-than-expected comedy from German-born writer-director Derrick Borte. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
This is no time to listen to the voices of tremulousness, indecision, compromise and fear.
That chosen for chipmunks is a compromise between the speeds reported for foraging chipmunks and migrating lemmings.
It may involve compromises, for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved.
As to the scientific element in this compromise, De Angelis holds, in his general introduction regarding meteorology, that the main material cause of comets is "exhalation," and says, "If this exhalation is thick and sticky, it blazes into a comet. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
If she wants her curfew moved up, you might compromise on a midnight curfew on weekends for a period of a month. You and Your Adolescent: A Parents' Guide for Ages 10 to 20
We would have expected a bit more clearance for chubbier, sportive-friendly tyres 25s or maybe even 28s and single mudguard eyelets also wouldn't hurt – performance is never compromised with slightly larger tyres, and the likelihood of a 566 Origin owner doing a wet brevet/grand fondo/sportive is high. Archive 2009-07-01
During the meeting, there were members who were accommodator, avoider, competitor and compromiser, but no collaborator.
Marckwardt, however, suggests dialectally mixed settlements gradually arriving at local compromises on those everyday terms for which the dialects differed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3
Indeed, one might argue that the languages of music and of dance share a degree of abstraction somewhat compromised by the incursion of word and plot.
Many delegates were willing to craft a compromise.
It may be argued that this approach is compromised by climatic differences noted here between palaeosols and surface soils.
When people are assigned overseas and then return, they have to remain undercover or else the front companies and contacts in that area are compromised. Sound Politics: Tom Maguire Wants Our Help
The Council showed their wisdom and voted 7-2 to complete the trail, with limitations on where the trail would be built for now, in acknowledgment of the business activity in Ballard. (i.e., a compromise) Ballard Businesses Propose Missing Link Alternative « PubliCola
Dinesh: [i] also, understand, that [the liberal] 's record of prognostication is shot. your credibility has been compromised by your sheer partisanship. Sound Politics: Gnashing of Democratic Teeth Begins
Diffuse reciprocity can take many forms, including concessions and derogations, or going out on a limb to persuade the capital for changes or a compromise.
It would be bumped and jostled by constant compromises, rather than sticking to policies that overall make sense. Times, Sunday Times
Unless a compromise could be reached the country would be diplomatically isolated on this issue.
This way of looking at causal laws is a delicate compromise.
The attachments may launch executable programs that compromise or delete perfectly good anti-virus programs you are already running. Globe and Mail
The Guardian, UK, reported on July 8th thatyour administration endorsed a revival of America's nuclear industryWednesdayin an effort to build forward momentum for climate change legislation before the Senate~ "The endorsement of a nuclear revival~ a generation after the last reactor was commissioned ~ suggests the Obama administration is open to further compromises as it seeks to find a path through the Senate. Greenpeace Makes A Statement / Will Obama Listen ?
I refuse to compromise my principles by eating meat.
Yaki had tried to broker a compromise earlier this year to keep the initiative off the ballot.
So reducing the amount and hence weight of the water ballast would compromise the self-righting capability of the boat. Rowing the ATLANTIC
If parents reject advice - and assuming you can not compromise your professional judgement - respect them and leave.
The maintenance of his fragile coalition caused Namaliu further difficulties in 1990 and compromised his own considerable reputation for integrity and probity.
The next few tracks exercise more restraint but fortunately don't compromise any of the fire of the opening track.
For conservatives, there can be no compromise on an issue that has become the touchstone of orthodoxy. Times, Sunday Times
We also demonstrate that, contrary to conventional thoughts, there is no evidence of compromise to patient safety.
His liver functions became compromised and he suffered from headaches, lack of sex drive, and heart palpitations.
Although he pathetically offered me an apology, I remained adamant until we struck a compromise.
I have tried my best during my years of public service to keep that name untarnished and respected, unmarked by sorry compromises for expediency. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.
This is essential if the scientific quality of studies of biodiversity at the ecosystem and genetic level is not to be compromised.
Our ability to navigate the compromises those conflicting rights necessitate is what makes us good at living collectively, or not. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Michael Shermer, Of All People, On Tolerable Atheism
He describes his transition from Dada to surrealism as a compromise.
In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.
But the scores on such tests are meaningless unless they are interpreted by sophisticated clinicians who are totally knowledgeable in pertinent research on child and adult development, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology, and who are astute observers and interpreters of behaviors such as the person's approach to problem solving or the degree to which anxiety or distractibility might have compromised the person's test scores. Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: Intelligent Testing
Genital surgery as young children that was not personally consented to often causes compromised genital sensation and inability to orgasm, and functional damage can give rise to feelings of loss of body ownership.
But as events take a number of twisty turns, no allegiance is as clear as it first seems and back-stabbing, double-dealing and compromise are the order of the day. Catch-up TV Guide: From Borgen to Brighton Rock
Two members had remained exceedingly hostile to the case, and because of their refusal to compromise the jury declared: ‘We are unanimously of the opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.’ Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
Muldoon's fidelity to his beliefs was considerable, but came to be compromised.
This is a ragbag of delights and compromises, as all such compilations are.
Compromises would not attract the support of the key interest groups in either and would be impossible to implement.
As for the member of Alcoholics Anonymous, there could be no compromise solution: it was either total abstinence or total relapse.
Where the cost of doing so is very high, it makes sense to introduce new treatments in a way that doesn't compromise other services. Times, Sunday Times
Now Angela's father has made a compromise offer, but it presents a tough choice for her.
He thought that a compromise between the two entremes was feasible, by which a certain element of picturesqueness might be introduced into our programmes without exposing us to the charge of deliberately seeking to denationalise ourselves. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
They announced a'fair' compromise after two days of legal wrangling. The Sun
Politics is about compromise, but ultimately the political process can shape and develop policy before the ultimate decision is formulated and presented by government.
You'll also have to compromise on the pool. Times, Sunday Times
Sixth a chairman may a compromiser between the executive branch and the Senate.
He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
An often acceptable compromise is local manufacture or assembly by a multinational company.
Though justified on grounds of profile and race sponsorship, it is a mightily uncomfortable compromise for a supposedly front-rank sport. Times, Sunday Times
However, he had risked his entire political career on a far-reaching compromise and lost.
Treatment with standard regimens is highly effective even in this immunocompromised population.
He left as his legacy not the dream of an independent state, but a corrupt and chaotic system and the steadfast refusal to compromise.
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
Now they have to prove that they have not only the will but the authority to end the violence and negotiate a compromise peace.
I compromised with the inevitable by having Wada make up my bed on the deck in the shelter of the cabin skylight just for'ard of the jiggermast. CHAPTER XLIV
The fear was that any release of information would greatly compromise their position in respect of a final market valuation of the shareholding.
The M3 itself had been a massive compromise with the mounting of its main gun in a side sponson that provided only limited tra - verse. Steel Victory
The book that rapidly compromises the circulation to your feet if it rests on your lap, places your wrists at high risk of a bout of tenosynovitis if you hold it up. Bookerthon 2007 - Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The refresh interval is set to three hours, a reasonable compromise between bandwidth conservation and paranoia.
He and fellow operators had argued that use of the dung catchers as an additional part of their horses' tack could compromise the welfare of the animals.
He said that it appeared likelier that the two sides would reach a compromise on the unresolved matters.
It is an urgent call to remain steadfast despite suffering, to repent of complacency and compromise, to move from lukewarmness and the middle of the road to heated commitment, and from disillusionment and despair to confidence and hope.
I think she really said'no compromise '. Times, Sunday Times
She did portray the sad, Laodicean condition of every level of church organization, rebuking, appealing, and weeping over its compromise with the world.
Two weeks ago it seemed that both sides were weaving a classic Thai compromise. Times, Sunday Times
The leader's aggressive stance seems to have foreclosed any chance of diplomatic compromise.
Party unity is threatened when members will not compromise.
It claimed that the incident had compromised sensitive information on organised crime and drug trafficking. Times, Sunday Times
My nannites have commenced repair work but my sensor baffles have been compromised.
Ironically, some eugenics leaders were uneasy about their alliance because they felt it could compromise their then-respectable public image.
Lawyers on opposing sides - representing either stringent anti-abortionists or abortion doctors - have been given until today to reach a compromise.
We never once see any internal struggle in his physically compromised position.
Remember that any time a file is viewable, the file can be copied, e-mailed and otherwise compromised.
The price means obvious but acceptable compromises. The Sun
As a politician, he always emphasized the virtues of compromise and conciliation.
The markup construction was tricky and required compromises in several places.
Compromises would not attract the support of the key interest groups in either and would be impossible to implement.
In patients with concomitant strabismus, who have compromised or absent binocular fusion, treatment is cosmetic as permanent ocular realignment cannot be expected.
His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him.
The optimum polymer concentration therefore that would yield the best compromise between total glucose availability and low osmolality remains to be determined.
Technically, flaws remain - most noticeably a stiffness in the feet that compromises the men's jumps and the women's pointe work.
The second part talks over from Norman Conquest to "The Great Charter". In the process, Feudal monarchy had sharp conflict and compromise with the power of Christian Religion.
Any Republican urge to negotiate a ‘least bad’ compromise with the Democrats, and thereby gain momentary public credit for helping the president ‘do something’ about health care, should also be resisted. The Medical is Political « PubliCola
Most wage claims are settled by compromise.

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