Sentence examples for devising a compromise from inspiring English sources

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.

Devising a compromise that would protect Dreamers with a legislative fix is currently the subject of heated negotiation in Congress.

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

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.

The U.S. airlines eventually devised a compromise: They removed the word "Taiwan" from their websites but didn't agree to describe Taiwan as part of China.

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

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.

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.

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and Hendrik A. Lorentz of the Netherlands to devise a compromise to salvage the notion of ether were eventually superseded by Einstein's special theory of relativity (see relativity).