Constructive compromise in a republic is not surrender; it's sensibility.
They have worked to make it as difficult as possible for a legislator of either party to hold independent views or engage in constructive compromise.
The disease is a deeply polarized and inflexible political environment that frustrates the spirit of constructive compromise a vibrant democracy demands.
Since May, Conservative ministers have comforted themselves that the election result had a silver lining of constructive compromise that has redefined British politics.
For followers of the engrossing battle between the treaty-loathing, gloom-mongering go-it-aloners who march with Donald Rumsfeld and the alliance-friendly, deal-cutting pragmatists with Colin Powell, this was a week when creative tension produced a constructive compromise.
So, if you think politics has been especially uncivil and ugly in the past few months, "you ain't seen nothing, girlfriend!" Constructive solutions and compromises are more likely to be found when Mercury goes direct on October 9.
The idea is that unless Israel bears the full cost of and responsibility for occupation, it will not be able to make constructive and fair compromises towards the end of its military occupation.
Thus, critics of Cold Warriors and the Cold War saw the Soviet Union as an alternative, socialist system with which a realistic, moderate and non-ideological Western policy should pursue "constructive engagements" toward compromise, cooperation and mutual respect.
"Negotiations will be hard on all sides, and a constructive spirit, willingness to compromise and persistence will be needed to reach a lasting settlement," the official added.
Lawmakers from both parties and both houses of Congress praised Mrs. Hutchison's proposal as a constructive step toward a compromise between bills passed by the Senate and the House.
