Sentence examples for getting a compromise from inspiring English sources
And while I've been excoriating Reid's leadership abilities for what seems like an eternity now, I have to admit he did indeed lead this week in getting a compromise worked out on the health care reform bill.
"We have not had the give-and-take across the table required to get a compromise," she said.
"We are trying to get a compromise formula," Ron Dermer, a close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, said on Israel Radio earlier in the week.
Others argued that the Ryan proposal could help Mr. Boehner gather the Republican votes he needs to get a compromise on 2011 spending through the House.
"The challenge with that approach when it comes to things like violent policing or systemic racism is that you're never going to get a compromise.
But on Thursday some acknowledged that, to get a compromise, they might need to settle for private nonprofit insurance cooperatives instead.
In itself, the fact that the GOP is posturing to define the compromise is a hopeful sign: it signals that we're likely to get a compromise, rather than self-destructive defiance.
You will not get a compromise if you try to pretend that your opponents' beliefs can be ignored.What we're seeing here, in sum, isn't compromise; it's posturing.
"Rummy's plan was to get a compromise in the bill in which the Pentagon keeps its marbles and the C.I.A. loses theirs," the former high-level intelligence official told me.
