A carefully crafted compromise reached last year would leave it up to the F.D.A. to decide whether menthol should be restricted.
European leaders had offered up their citizens a huge tome that was a carefully crafted compromise, but people found more things they didn't like and rejected it.
But it was the surprise decision of all House Democrats to oppose the carefully crafted compromise bill that put it in sudden jeopardy.
At the same time, conservative Republican senators, led by Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas, are preparing an onslaught of amendments that threaten to unravel the carefully crafted compromise.
"We have a carefully crafted compromise, and once you start pulling the strings out of the compromise, it becomes difficult to keep as a sweater," said Frank Maisano, a spokesman for a group of MTBE producers.
But Corbyn also made an error in announcing that he did not believe in a welfare benefits cap at all, so overturning the carefully crafted compromise in the Labour manifesto.
Back in October, when Rowan Williams abandoned a decade of caution to pitch in uninhibitedly behind his carefully crafted compromise, he predicted the vote would shape the character of the Church of England for generations.
"Any departure from this carefully crafted compromise will undoubtedly reduce support for it in the House and prolong the expiration of these intelligence tools, and I urge the Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act as is and without any further delay," Schiff said on Monday.
In the next few weeks, Gov. Jon S. Corzine is to decide whether to accept a carefully crafted compromise on the operating rules for the Highlands legislation adopted four years ago or heed the pleas of a coalition of environmental groups to send it back for reconsideration.
Far from ignoring costs and benefits, the Clean Air Act is an exquisitely crafted compromise in which costs play no defining role in setting air quality goals, but can be considered by state and local governments in determining the most effective means of achieving those goals.
