[Soft money] contributions compromise our elected officials.
Between maintaining democratic principles based on civil debate and political compromise, or electing a "strongman" to fix our problems by the force of his will.
The Japanese are keen to see an end to the murky back-room compromises in which elected officials took office, but bureaucrats were in power.
The deadlock between the leading candidates for the succession, Austen Chamberlain and Walter Long, was broken by their withdrawal in favour of Law, a compromise candidate, who was elected unanimously on November 13.
As speaker, they elected a compromise figure, Mehdi Karroubi, a turbaned cleric who ran on a pro-Khatami ticket but is also a former hard-liner and past Parliament leader.
After the death of Bert Bell, whose den in his suburban Philadelphia home was the league office, Rozelle, then the Los Angeles Rams' 33-year-old general manager, was a compromise candidate who was elected on the 23rd ballot.
Governments are not usually elected to compromise on such matters.One European aim is to open up America's public-procurement market, which is more protected than Europe's; one reason is that the federal government cannot force states to open tenders to foreign bidders.
Seth Mydans (NYT) MIDDLE EAST IRAN: SPEAKER ELECTED The new Parliament elected a mid-ranking cleric as speaker after days of debate and compromise among pro-reform groups.
In Kabul, Parliament elected Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi, a compromise candidate, to be speaker.
Mr. Maliki, 60, a Shiite first elected as a compromise prime minister in 2006, appealed for unity.
