One could imagine a world where the advance of gay marriage, and the apparent failure of traditionalist arguments on the issue, inspired social conservatives to seek both a more comprehensive pro-marriage agenda and less compromised standard bearers for that cause.
From his supporters on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, to campaign aides of the soon-to-be commander-in-chief, there's a sense of ambivalence about giving a top political plum to a woman they spent 18 months hammering as the compromised standard-bearer of an era that deserves to be forgotten.
The governor's spokesman, Ekerete Udoh, said the state government would hold an inquiry to investigate if anyone compromised building standards.
The work was initially motivated by the fact that, on one hand, environmental and resource-related benefits of bio-sourced materials are still compromised by limited standards of technical performance and material service life.
Where is style, where is history in our compromised time of diminished standards?
But it does provide an interesting look inside Apple's philosophy with the iPad mini, and just how much the company is intent on making sure it's not a compromised version of the standard iPad experience.
Those in favour of task shifting tended to describe it in positive terms, incorporating elements such as "delegation", "where necessary", or "appropriate"; while those against it saw it in terms such as "task dumping", "cheap", "sub-standard care", and "compromised quality of care".
Thus this stratified model can quantify the differences in the birth weight distribution (i.e. the proportion of "compromised" births, and the means and standard deviations of both subpopulations) and the (standardized) birth weight specific mortality characteristics between African and European American birth cohorts.
Measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) is the clinical gold standard in cases of compromised skeletal integrity, such as with osteoporosis.
