Sentence examples for drafting a compromise from inspiring English sources

Britain, France, Ireland and Norway worked through the last week drafting a compromise.

After that, each side would submit five of the remaining unresolved items to so-called baseball arbitration, in which the arbitrator picks one offer or the other rather than drafting a compromise.

In drafting a compromise, however, Senator Saland and other Republicans insisted on language that carves out exceptions for religious institutions and not-for-profit corporations affiliated with those religious entities.

President Bush's top political and economic advisers, deeply divided on one of the most excruciating decisions of Mr. Bush's 14-month-old presidency, met today to begin drafting a compromise that would place high tariffs on some imported steel, but force the American steel industry to shoulder the costs of the retirement benefits of its workers.

Over the last month, regulators scrambled to draft a compromise.

Because the bill has inspired fierce protests from environmentalists and governors in fire-prone Western states, a Senate group led by Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden has drafted a compromise.

Lindsey Graham, the Republican who is working closely with Democrats to draft a compromise cap and trade bill, is also on board with a greater role for nuclear power.

Then Mr. Manchin, Mr. King and Senator Thomas R. Carper, Democrat of Delaware, drafted a compromise that they thought would ease liberal concerns over the House bill.

Aides to Mr. Nelson said he was studying a proposal on abortion that he received on Wednesday from Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who had been asked by Democratic leaders to try to draft a compromise.

With the Republican-dominated Legislature preparing to leave town on Friday, time has run out to draft a compromise bill between the House and Senate that would expand Medicaid with the help of billions of federal dollars.

Mr. Rockefeller tried to draft a compromise with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, that offered to cut $70 million from the rural airport program — several times more than the amount that the Republican bill sought to cut.