Sentence examples for legislative compromises from inspiring English sources

To Lincoln slavery was a moral issue, unsolvable by legislative compromises.

Despite the early battles, Republican leaders in both the House and Senate said they wanted to work with their Democratic colleagues to reach some legislative compromises.

Obama so values pragmatism, and is so immersed in the thorny details of legislative compromises, that he may be undervaluing the connective bonds of simpler truths.

Lincoln had to defeat his most vocal critics on the battlefield to preserve the Union, but he did not have to forge legislative compromises with them.

But these problems would be less severe, they write, if Republicans weren't so unabashedly ruthless about leveraging every tool for partisan gain, even if that means leaving crucial federal jobs unfilled or picking fights rather than making legislative compromises.

Mr. Guenther and other lobbyists across a variety of industries said that if President Bush hoped to get much of his agenda through the divided Congress, he might now have to make far more legislative compromises.

Another part called for legislative compromise.

"We were in a position of legislative compromise by necessity.

They preferred campaign issues to legislative compromise, he said.

— Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman for Minnesota "We were in a position of legislative compromise by necessity.

It should be possible for Albany to reach agreement on a responsible legislative compromise.