Sentence examples for shrewd compromise from inspiring English sources
A Capitol fixture since 1980 and a conscientious legislative technician, Saland negotiated with Cuomo the details of a shrewd compromise that assured religious organizations that they would not be compelled to participate in gay marriages, giving a bit of shelter to lawmakers worried about religious blowback.
He regarded the constitutional settlement of 1787 88 as a shrewd compromise with the political necessities of a nation-state exercising jurisdiction over an extensive, eventually continental, empire, not as a betrayal of the American Revolution but an evolutionary fulfillment of its promise.
He receives a lot of online abuse, but refuses to compromise on his lifestyle of shrewd media commentary and political analysis punctuated by the odd poker night.
"The choice appears to be a shrewd one - you could hardly imagine a more Belgian compromise," one commentator wrote.
There is Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, whom many shrewd observers have long assumed would ultimately emerge as an inoffensive compromise.
Some saw his transition as a shrewd move by Facebook to co-opt a hacker before he might compromise the company.
Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed; but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise.
Shrewd, informed judgements.
