Sometimes consumer empowerment has come hand-in-hand with the disempowerment of creative professions and individuals; sometimes customer freedom has entailed giving creativity away for free; sometimes the sharing economy has compromised intellectual property.
It interferes with lung development, increases the risk of heart attacks, and compromises intellectual capacity.
It is known for having achieved financial success without any compromise of intellectual standards.
Such a robust approach can adapt as climate-change science improves.Europe and America should therefore build on the decade's worth of goodwill, hard-won compromise and intellectual capital poured into the Kyoto framework.
"I would have to compromise my intellectual honesty too much to choose any of the remaining candidates," wrote Erick Erickson, the most influential conservative talking head on a cable network not called Fox. "I put my weight behind the sweet meteor of death".
A famously touted compromise among intellectuals was struck, conveyed in the motto: 中体西用 "Chinese learning for the foundation, Western learning for pragmatic purposes".
WASHINGTON is more often than not an object of scorn among politicians trying to get a job there; talk radio hosts feeding their audiences with the latest penny-ante scandal; and the glib ideologues of the left and right for whom compromise chiefly reflects intellectual inconsistency.
Though the founder of the dominant technology of the twentieth century, he variously impressed, charmed or disturbed people with his unworldly innocence and his dislike of moral or intellectual compromise.
It wasn't some intellectual compromise with the untiring forces that just like to beat you down.
That has led to compromises on the intellectual projects he would have liked to pursue, but life has been full of compromises ever since he narrowly survived cancer as an 18-year-old: there are all kinds of food he cannot eat as a result.
David accepted more popular consumer features, but never compromised over the intellectual core of the paper.
