For all that the Pentagon talks about how the documents' release compromises security, the conduct of the war in Iraq has deeply, deeply compromised us, both morally and, ultimately, in terms of our own security.
In Fantastic Four, the climax comes as a disposable afterthought, advertising its own deeply compromised nature.
But for Ms Ajakaiye, Nigeria has deteriorated on several levels since then: Educational institutions have been seriously weakened, the railway sector is dead and the country's value system has been deeply compromised.
Democracy has been deeply compromised and may yet collapse outright.
The Zimbabwean judiciary has been deeply compromised in recent years, with many judges accepting luxury cars and farmland from the Mugabe government.
John Keys, an American who ran the Kigali office of the American Refugee Committee, a private relief organization, had previously worked in the camps in Goma, Zaire, where he had felt deeply compromised.
This is politics played by the most dangerous presidential candidate the United States has known and a deeply compromised, deeply uninspiring representative of a ruling class that has failed not just America but the world.
He opens with his now-classic joke: 'I'm Al Gore, I used to be the next President of the United States', which bears repeating again and again when you think about the ignorant, inarticulate, dishonest, deeply compromised person who has occupied that office throughout this century.
The reason we don't have any is because – in our deeply compromised democracy – the media is so often there to serve the interests of the rich.
Brought up in South Africa in a white community deeply compromised by apartheid, I had made a huge journey in my own ways of seeing.
