Inns proliferated in the town, and in the fifteen-hundreds, two became famous for the tall tales that would fly between their common rooms — the Cock and the Bull, which would compete to accommodate the travellers who could spin the most outlandish stories.
In order to deal with different environments, competing microbes and accommodating hosts, bacteria need to secrete enzymes and other proteins into the extracellular environment [ 103].
To better understand how to talk about sex, couples can learn about the five negotiation styles-competing, avoiding, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating.
Mr. Obama has run a smart campaign based in part on his ability to accommodate competing policy stands.
One new book, "Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice and Possibility for American Cities" (The MIT Press), edited by Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton, argues that a successful American city should offer "stories" to its citizens that would accommodate competing claims and cultures.
But one sure way for them to lay themselves open to criticism is to do what they're doing now — tinkering with wartime policy out of public view, vote-swapping and cutting deals to accommodate competing party interests.
Compared to figures presented in November, when a summit failed to agree a budget, some €50bn was raided from these areas in order to accommodate competing national claims on the two biggest items in the budget – the CAP and the cohesion funds that go mainly to eastern Europe and the less developed parts of the union.
Compromise-related responses imply recognizing and attempting to accommodate competing demands but not at their full strength; this would entail finding a middle ground in the form of settlement or balance (Jay 2013; Smith and Lewis 2011).
Brown (2009) proposes a dialogic framework following from agonistic democracy, which takes the position that when consensus is not possible, progress can be facilitated through ongoing commitment to accounting processes that represent and accommodate competing perspectives.
Achieving both poles simultaneously is the managerial ideal promised by ambidextrous designs that enable organizations to accommodate competing demands in order to gain higher performance (Bøe-Lillegraven 2014; O'Reilly and Tushman 2013), despite the ideal being difficult to achieve, costly to maintain, and unstable in action (Burton et al. 2015; Gibson and Birkinshaw 2004).
