At the individual level, personal relationships and ability to compromise within partnerships were seen as important.
Thatcher and Reagan, who together made the 1980s the decade of conservatism, shared a vision of the world in which the Soviet Union was an evil enemy deserving of no compromise, and their partnership ensured that the Cold War continued in all its frigidity until the rise to power of the reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
Former Defense Minister Volker Rühe, one of the few Christian Democrat deputies who has publicly favored Turkey's bid, said entry talks should not include secondary options, and he warned against watered-down compromises like a partnership agreement.
If this final project cannot be recognized truly as an ecological engineering project, it has the merit of being a compromise between various partnerships which have been debating for more than a century.
He said any partnership that compromised Channel 4's independence "would be like cutting out your heart to grow a new limb".
Mr. McMurtry and Ms. Ossana won an Oscar for their film adaptation of "Brokeback Mountain," a 2005 movie that reimagined the western not as a conflict between solitary, protectionist, gun-slinging impulses and the will to coupled life, but rather as an anguished choice between two forms of sexual partnership, each compromised.
Because of the emergent nature of the co-creation process and the crucial importance of relationships and partnership synergy, compromises may need to be made with respect to methodology to facilitate impact.
Success stories abound, but in many places there is a long path from occasional compromises to lasting partnerships and policy changes.
Projects were slowed, partnerships compromised and monitoring hampered.
Howard Dean and others expressed their support for domestic partnership as a compromise.
