Sentence examples for national compromise from inspiring English sources

Since then, the EEA has become Norway's national compromise on Europe.

For us, a small, wealthy country on Europe's periphery, to opt for the EEA solution has been a functioning national compromise after twice failing to secure support for full membership.

An underlying national compromise on abortion seemed to be emerging.

His original proposal for an annexed Texas had embodied a national compromise, whereby Texas would be divided in two, half slave-soil and half free-soil.

A terrorism law decreed in December could ensnare more activists: those who seek to "harm the national interest", "compromise national unity" or "breach security or public peace" face life in prison if they are financed by foreigners.

Farron argued that the Tory plan to insist on a referendum by the end of 2017 would "damage the national interest, compromise our negotiating position and be bad for the economy and jobs".

Until Thursday's hearing, government lawyers had argued that releasing the internal intelligence agency guidance would compromise national security.

Doing so could compromise national security, Pentagon officials say.

The content of the documents did not compromise national security".

There are ways to cut that will not compromise national security.

This "meat-cleaver approach," we were warned, would kill jobs and compromise national security.