Instead, Yasser Arafat has refused to compromise.
Mr Paisley has refused to compromise with nationalists all his life and has said Sinn Fein as well as the IRA will have to disband before he will sit in government with them.Deadlock?
Throughout Mandela's presidency, and right up until today, Tutu has continued to speak out about injustice wherever he has seen it, and has refused to compromise his deeply held belief that human rights are for everyone to enjoy.
Joko has refused to compromise on drug-related executions.
The White House has refused to compromise on the central issues that cause us such grave concern.
Pointing out that Walsh has refused to compromise over the debt ceiling, O'Donnell said, "to our utter disgust, we now know what he's like as a no-compromise father".
The Awami League said the BNP was "deliberately derailing democracy" and has refused a series of compromise offers, including ministerial posts.
Mr. Erdogan has refused to seek political compromise with protesters who opposed a plan to build a shopping mall and a mosque in a park in Taksim Square in Istanbul, and he has directed police to subdue them with tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has refused to make any serious compromises, and the two-state solution seems to have a diminishing chance of ever happening.
The Democratic congressional leadership has refused to bring up for a vote bipartisan compromise proposals that lack a timeline for withdrawal.
