Sentence examples for compromising spirit from inspiring English sources

To those who predicted doom, Douglass repeated what he had said when the war was just beginning: "The real trouble with us was never our system or form of Government, or the principles underlying it; but the peculiar composition of our people, the relations existing between them and the compromising spirit which controlled the ruling power of the country".

"Pseudo-conservative" was another term Hofstadter used to describe the far-right fringe: "pseudo" because they didn't embrace conservatism's "temperate and compromising spirit".

Not used for formal sessions since 1859, that room has helped defuse previous moments of partisan rancor — including impeachment proceedings for the trial of President Bill Clinton — with senators emerging saying they had invoked the compromising spirits of Clay, Calhoun and Webster.

And she has taken audacious liberties with the plot while in no way compromising the spirit of the book.

"Dr. Hedgwar was equally emphatic that winning over the Muslims should not end in compromising the spirit of nationalism," the prologue of the book reads.

[CM] Several homeopathic respondents expressed concern that under the new regulations, their profession would become "more medical and less homeopathic" [H], thereby compromising the "spirit of homeopathy" [H].

Treatment was built around two phases to allow motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy to be integrated without compromising the essential spirit and fundamentals of each approach.

And if you can preserve that spirit, without compromising it, then here you are – you're an overnight success, mate!" he says, slapping Rubbo's back again.

When important recreational fish populations, a growing sector of the Appalachian economy and the health of Appalachian people clearly depend on strong water quality protections, the president's spirit of compromise should not extend to compromising on science.

Without compromising their barmy, emotion-led founding spirit, they'd wound up as permanent headliners, arena giants.

Being accepted meant compromising and becoming compromised.