At baptism a Christian was expected to renounce his occupation if that implicated him in public or private compromise with polytheism, superstition, dishonesty, or vice.
But Abbas, rather than simply presenting his cabinet to the Parliament, tried to reach a private compromise with Arafat on the very day Fayyad met with the press.
No surprise, then, that plans to curb student visas announced on March 22nd bear signs of private compromise, as well as of public consultation with a nervous education lobby.For Tories intent on cutting immigration, study visas provide a great opening.
2. How much have private companies compromised themselves and their customers?
In 1534, the city's religious leaders had been willing to make a private theological compromise with Amerbach that convinced him that he could receive the legally required Protestant communion with good conscience.
Motherhood may look like a genre, but in reality it is an infinitesimal network of secret pacts and compromises, of private bargainings with the self.
* Surveillance violates the private sphere and compromises freedom of thought and opinion.
Republicans also claim they're ready to talk, and maybe in private they offer compromises (like we're told John Boehner did over the debt ceiling in 2011).
Newmyer carefully works through Marshall's private and public compromises with the slavocracy (he owned slaves himself, tried to keep the court from becoming entangled in the issue and privately chided colleagues willing to take it on).
First there's the incredibly slow grind of public and private negotiations and compromises in the House and Senate a process that, in the case of those rare pieces of major legislation with chances to pass, can take months and require input from dozens of interest groups.
