Sentence examples for dubious compromises from inspiring English sources

We may believe that Blair and his colleagues made misjudgments (as well as many good calls) about how best to translate this narrative into policies, and about the dubious compromises they made along the way.

This was even true during the actual occupation, with film-makers like Sacha Guitry, Claude Autant-Lara and Jean Cocteau making dubious compromises in order to function as artists, while some of France's great postwar film-makers – André Cayatte and Henri-Georges Clouzot, to name just two – first worked, nobly or ignobly, for Continental, the Nazi-supervised French production outfit.

We must prevent those attacks from ending in similar dubious "compromises".

But it was a dubious compromise.

The 'novel foods' regulation is based on this dubious compromise text.

All the other dubious allegiances and garbled compromised stances reminiscent of a nightmarish fifth-form debating society.

Against compromise with dubious material or workmanship Stanford stubbornly set his face".

Unfortunately, the quality of the data is often dubious, since quality is often compromised in the quest for urgent information at minimal cost.

Rather than retire the grizzled warriors, some automakers continue to soften and compromise them, sometimes to dubious effect: the 4Runner is a pale shadow of its rebellious self of the 1980s and '90s.

Berlin's pluralism points the way to a politics of compromise; yet Berlin also warned against the dangers of certain types of compromise, particularly those involving the employment of dubious means to achieve desired ends.

Nyborg makes compromises, sanctions the dark arts and makes morally dubious choices in order to survive.