Sentence examples for compromise held from inspiring English sources

It is our hope that the compromise held and water is being shared.

Such parishes (there are now 350) were placed under the care of ecclesiastical visitors, or "flying bishops".The compromise held the Church of England together.

Mr. Boehner, who last week had tried unsuccessfully to get his party to compromise, held a news conference with the Republicans he had appointed as negotiators to a nonexistent legislative conference committee.

Republicans, knowing in advance that they were in no mood to compromise, held no such illusions and felt free to characterize their opponents however they wished in public statements.

And the Maoists have also been unwilling to compromise, holding on to their 19,000-troop army and their paramilitary group, the Young Communist League, and refusing to turn into just another political party.

Michele Bachmann says she is proud never to have voted for raising the debt ceiling in the past.Fourth, the Theory of Inevitable Compromise holds that fear of the voters will push the parties together.

Asked by the Guardian on Tuesday if he was open to the new compromise, Rubio held up a copy of the bill and said he was actively reviewing it.

Opponents of the plan criticized the compromise negotiations held largely out of the public eye, and said they were an example of the Mormon Church exerting its influence on public policy.

The amendment was adopted to overturn the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, which invalidated the Missouri Compromise and held that African-Americans, whether enslaved or freed, could never be U.S. citizens.

Genuinely ambivalent about the "morally and politically vicious" (84) compromises that held the Union together, Adams nonetheless read the crisis as a portent of an almost ineluctable sectional rift over slavery.

Also worth watching: Whether media figures who profess to want bipartisan compromise genuinely hold both sides responsible — Republicans, too, and not just Obama — for making concessions in the quest for that compromise.