Sentence examples for partisan compromise from inspiring English sources

Either it was a partisan compromise, or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science committee simply hedged its bets, bestowing its annual prize on three economists, two of whom represent divergent views.

"The problem," said Burdett Loomis, a University of Kansas political scientist who has written about civility and deliberation in the Senate, "is that even a bill like Medicare is essentially a package of partisan compromises rather than something that actually gets talked about and deliberated.

Minority House leader Nancy Pelosi said the legislation sent from the Senate represented a "historic" bi-partisan compromise.

But other officials — and Mr. Obama, who rose to national prominence calling for cross-partisan compromise — also supported pursuing such a deal.

Where there is the opportunity for true bi-partisan compromise we must take it, however, there can be no yielding on issues we define as "no compromise".

Even our deadlocked Congress has found bi-partisan compromises in entrepreneurship-related legislation, including reforms to the patent process and student loan relief.

For all that the public is willing to see parties argue their principles, the very word "partisan" (like "compromise") has become a dirty word.

39 A Partisan Congress Departs Compromise was a rare commodity for the highly partisan 106th Congress, which ended its work last week.

Partisan habits make compromise difficult, and Democratic strength in Congress gives President Obama's party the option of shoving legislation through without Republican support.

"I just think we have to be less partisan — more willing to compromise when compromise makes sense, and more willing to fight to the death when fighting to the death makes sense," Mr. O'Toole said.

And they should avoid rhetoric such as the extreme conditions Mr Boehner recently laid down for raising the debt ceiling again that thrills partisans but makes compromise impossible.Kicking the can three months down the road is not ideal.