Sentence examples for backroom compromise from inspiring English sources

She's an old-time pol, a grassroots progressive activist who climbed to the top through tireless work, constant gladhanding (most recently at something called hairdressers against Aids), and the occasional backroom compromise.

New Komeito is particularly worried that a backroom compromise with Mr Abe this year could wound it during next spring's local elections.One way out of the impasse, and the focus of much rumour, is for Mr Abe to call a snap election for the lower house of parliament before the spring of 2015.

With the projected consequences of climate change so devastating, however, critics of the bill want a fight with the coal industry rather than a backroom compromise that results in regulations no better - or perhaps worse - than laws already in place.

Of course, even if the GOP takes the Senate, Congress will likely remain hopelessly deadlocked and it will still take a series of complicated backroom compromises to get any legislation passed that doesn't deal with the naming of post offices.

The one-off, 90-minute drama is to air early next year and looks into the backroom politics, compromises and wrangling that took place after the 2010 election failed to produce a majority.

This was the arduous, unappealing work of managing this particular polis -- backroom promises, compromises, and buy-offs helped to reduce the pressure and keep the peace, and it did so at the expense of higher-minded principles.

Without pension reform, the City faces near certain bankruptcy and I am the candidate who is not afraid to bring to light the backroom deals that compromise the future of this great City.