Sentence examples similar to compromised measures from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush gave his speech hours before the California Supreme Court ordered San Francisco to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and before the Massachusetts legislature gave preliminary approval to compromise measures that could ban gay marriage while allowing civil unions.

A so-called "compromise measure" would provide $25 billion for Trump's long-sought border wall, offer a pathway to citizenship to young undocumented immigrants and keep migrant families together.

A Senate panel last month also advanced a far more expansive (but also more contentious) compromise measure of its own.

Other schools tried compromise measures, with uneven results.

In his CNN comments, which were taped Friday, Mr. Reyes made no reference to such compromise measures.

With the influential support of Sen. Daniel Webster and the concerted unifying efforts of Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, the five compromise measures were enacted in September.

The Senate Budget Committee is expected to meet on Friday or Saturday, at which point any compromise measures worked out overnight could be approved, and Senate leaders expect to convene a voting session on Sunday.

Holt argues that northern Democrats and southern Whigs joined together in support of compromise measures because of factional disputes that had created a stalemate in the Thirty-First Congress.

But the deadlock in Washington, and worries over the possibility of drastic automatic Federal cuts caused by the fiscal cliff (or the compromise measures which may replace them) are causing Ameresco's customers to delay signing contracts.

But the Bush administration refused to consider compromise measures.

Later legislation moved in the right direction but passed only as compromise measures.