Sentence examples for devise a compromise from inspiring English sources

The House and Senate Banking committees have already submitted anti-money-laundering legislation, and members of both committees have been working closely together to devise a compromise bill.

If the Fed really wanted to survive the disgruntlement in both parties, he continued, Mr. Bernanke would have to step back and let him devise a compromise.

Although a number of large developing nations like China, Brazil and South Africa balked at the intrusiveness of the system, Mr. Stern helped devise a compromise they could live with.

Whether Ms. White will be able to devise a compromise with her fellow commissioners to protect the funds from a "run on the bank" that almost occurred during the financial crisis will be a crucial test of her leadership.

In one instance, delegates from China and Brazil actually pounded on tables to drown out a speaker from industry.To break the impasse, some countries are trying to devise a compromise before the summit that will temporarily appease all sides.

Ingenious attempts by the physicists George FitzGerald of Ireland and Hendrik A. Lorentz of the Netherlands to devise a compromise to salvage the notion of ether were eventually superseded by Einstein's special theory of relativity (see relativity).

I've devised a compromise solution: I've simply retired my VCR and watch the programs as they are broadcast.

Within hours of the Senate votes, senior Democrats met with Mr. Jeffords in hopes of devising a compromise that could win support from 60 senators.

But the administration devised a compromise, allowing students to live in single-sex dormitories and pursue women's studies in the newly named Douglass Residential College, which is more of a physical campus than an academic institution.

Undeterred, the developer devised a compromise: in exchange for federal financial assistance, the developer would build a concrete wall six feet high, a foot thick, and a half-mile long separating the black enclave from the proposed white subdivision.

In response Frog devised a compromise that it calls a teaser: a test project that gives a taste of the firm's research-intensive style but can be completed in a few weeks' time.