Sentence examples for failed compromises from inspiring English sources
"The three-fifths compromise is one of the greatest failed compromises in U.S. history," she said.
What if I saw this not as my problem, but as a problem governments and countries confront on a daily basis-from impasses to communication and failed compromises, to prolonged conflict and inbred hatred.
No more failed compromises on a prescription drug benefit for seniors.
It was John Crittenden who exemplified the dying breath of conservative Unionism in the border states during the secession crisis, lending his name to a series of failed compromise efforts that would have forestalled civil war.
If all else fails, compromise with the enemy by placing a more delectable food source on the other side of the yard, away from the pumpkin.
The architect of all these tactics, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, wrote an op-ed praising bipartisanship after the Republicans lost the House, but that's not the sort of politics he has practiced Republicans have utterly failed to compromise with the Democrats on key issues, and there's no reason Democrats should compromise in turn if they win big in 2020.
Whaling nations and their opponents failed to compromise at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in June.
Some analysts argue that Mosaddeq failed to compromise with the west and the coup took place against the backdrop of communism fears in Iran.
President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, former Senator John C. Danforth, said in Khartoum that he would spend the next year trying to end the country's 18-year civil war but would pass the task on to someone else if the government and rebel groups failed to compromise soon.
The Taiwanese executives of Rt-Mart and French directors of Auchan failed to compromise on the terms of their merger plan in a recent dinner meeting in Shanghai, China Business News reported Monday, citing internal sources from two companies.
He tried to take it by force and failed; a compromise was reached by which the two agreed to a truce.
