Sentence examples for compromise to avert from inspiring English sources

With time running out for a deficit reduction compromise to avert a federal government default, all eyes are on President Obama and Congressional leadership.

As $85 billion in government budget cuts took effect on Friday, President Obama blamed Republicans for the lack of a compromise to avert the so-called sequester.

In January, House Democrats — with a minority of House Republicans — passed a Senate-White House compromise to avert massive tax increases and sudden across-the-board spending cuts, after House Republicans sunk the speaker's more conservative version of the legislation.

A deal was reached late on Monday night when the White House and Congressional leaders reached a compromise to avert some but not all of the austerity measures due to take effect on Tuesday.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday in San Francisco that the administration remained "absolutely committed" to finding a compromise to avert a confrontation at the United Nations based on a resumption of negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians along the lines outlined by President Obama in May.

The two top priorities for the session are stop-gap financing to keep the government running, and a legislative compromise to avert the outright expiration on Dec. 31 of the income tax cuts enacted during the administration of President George W. Bush.

A Democrat, he was elected to two consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he supported several proposed compromises to avert the Civil War and blamed the Radical Republicans for their failure.

Mr. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, also raised the possibility that his chamber might vote as early as Sunday night on a yet-to-be-announced debt ceiling compromise designed to avert a potential economic crisis this week.

"The markets believe the political parties will reach a compromise agreement to avert a default," Mr. El-Erian said, especially considering that they may have a bit more time on the doomsday clock.

A test vote is set for Tuesday, and a rejection of the McConnell plan could make it difficult to find a new compromise in time to avert a shutdown.

The rigours of the election campaign barely behind him, President Barack Obama was back in the Oval Office yesterday pondering the immediate challenges of negotiating a compromise with Congress to avert a so-called "fiscal cliff" of impending tax increases and spending cuts and revamping his inner circle.