Mr. Lavrov seized on the idea, saying that it might form the basis of a compromise.
Nothing would advance the just cause of Palestinian statehood faster than the irrevocable renunciation of violence by all factions and reconciliation between them on the basis of territorial compromise with Israel.
That, Mr Einhorn thinks, could be the basis of a compromise.Can Mr Rohani sell a deal along those lines back home, above all to the enigmatic Mr Khamenei?
Convergence standards of different numerical algorithms are adjusted on the basis of a compromise between precision and time by the method of experimental plan.
The results are discussed in terms of the optimum layered architectural design for structural applications on the basis of the compromise between threshold strength and energy absorption capability associated with crack bifurcation mechanisms occurring at fracture.
On the basis of the compromises Mr. Barak tabled at Camp David, or on the basis of the Israeli right's delusion that by just hanging tough with unrealistic positions the Palestinian side will fold -- and there will be no price with America, the Arabs or the rest of the world?
The writers are therefore pushing for a Palestinian state to be created next to Israel, both with secure borders, "on the basis of painful compromises for both parties … such as the abandonment of settlements or their exchange for land, the renouncement of the right of return of the 1948 refugees, the sharing of Jerusalem".
At that point, Luis Ernesto Derbez, Mexico's foreign minister and chairman of the Cancún gathering, said he saw no basis for compromise and declared the meeting over.
Representative Maurice Hinchey has offered what seems to be a reasonable compromise -- or at the very least the basis of a reasonable compromise -- in a dispute over a huge commercial project that could threaten the integrity of the New York City watershed, the source of drinking water for millions of people in the city and Westchester County.
