Sentence examples for promised compromise from inspiring English sources

He still has a parliamentary seat at Westminster, however, and will no doubt use it to heckle the new prime minister about ceding more powers to Scotland.Taking office this week, Mr Salmond promised "compromise and intelligent debate".

Negotiators shuttled back and forth from Grand Comore to Anjouan, only to be deceived by Mr Bacar, who, say diplomats, promised compromise while digging in.In this section Coming to a crunch Back to first principles St Tropez in the Horn?

Mr. Assad's government, which seems to have staggered amid the breadth and persistence of the protests, has hewed to a policy of crackdown and promised compromise, with Tuesday's decrees the latest to suggest it is willing to end decades of authoritarianism.

Hillary could not convince those weary souls to trust yet one more New Democrat who promised that compromise was the way forward.

But having promised "painful compromises" -- code for withdrawals -- before his recent elections, Arik expects to remain in office through a Likud Party vote and possible coalition defection.

Unlike previous sectarian attacks against religious sites, or market attacks designed to inflict the largest toll of casualties, these latest attacks are a symptom of a weak and inert government that has been unable to effectively integrate the Sunni Sonss of Iraq", nor provide them with promised electoral compromises.

Jobs promised "no compromises," but some were certainly made in the name of keeping the system thin and light.

Riz Ahmed is excellent as Aaron Kalloor, the Zuckerbergy whizz-kid whose Deep Dream empire is building "a community that is transcending national boundaries" while insisting that "no one will be watching you", a hollow promise compromised by a murky debt dating back to his startup days.

This was the arduous, unappealing work of managing this particular polis -- backroom promises, compromises, and buy-offs helped to reduce the pressure and keep the peace, and it did so at the expense of higher-minded principles.

To them, the governor's decision to revise the law to satisfy Indiana's politically moderate business leaders felt like an unexpected betrayal from a man who promised never to compromise his values.

But its day-to-day practice is often dirtier: oppositions must be denigrated, promises and compromises made, voters persuaded to trust you with decisions that will affect every aspect of their lives.