Sentence examples for compromise the basis from inspiring English sources

By way of compromise, the basis for the eventual border was still tribal: the Muntafiq, Dhafir and Amarat tribes would be Iraqi, and the Shammar Nejd would belong to Nejd (thereafter Saudi Arabia), with each allowed access to the wells and pastures they historically used.

Mr Moussaoui, a French citizen, has been indicted for an alleged connection with the September 11th attacks; his lawyers argue that having to rely on witness "summaries" compromises the basis of a fair trial.John Rowland, the former Republican governor of Connecticut, was sentenced to a year in prison on a corruption charge.

Thus in Pakistan today, a pillar of democracy — the general election — is threatening to compromise the very basis of representative politics: the national census.

It has in many ways become a burden for the US, but people in Washington, all the way up to Obama will not touch it, because of the fear it could compromise the very basis of the Israeli-US understanding".

But, in Kempers' view, "[i]n the final analysis, however, the settlement negotiations appear to have compromised the very basis of the claim" by bringing the tribes under "much closer state supervision".

Flexibility is a useful goal, no doubt, but if a compromise was the basis for the arbitrators' decision, they ought not to be shy about saying why they compromised, and how they reached the particular result.

He doesn't believe in the idea of respectful discourse, he doesn't believe in the idea of compromise on the basis of consensus.

Such a resolution would require Israel to accept a territorial compromise on the basis of the 1967 lines and the Palestinians to concede on the issue of refugees.

As the increasingly chaotic scenes in Ukraine's east continued, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, told a televised call-in programme he was certain that Russia and Ukraine could reach a compromise on the basis of their common interests.

With little sign that Brussels believes it needs to back down, Clegg has been instrumental in persuading the Conservative leadership to dampen the rhetoric and try to negotiate a compromise on the basis of a detailed analysis of the statistics that led to the demand.

It also indicates that in order to avoid conflicts, states should avoid moral crusades or ideological confrontations, and look for compromise on the basis of satisfaction of their mutual interests alone.