Sentence examples for tentative compromise from inspiring English sources

Representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, discusses what lies ahead for Congress after a tentative compromise on the extension of payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits.

Gov. Jim Hodges, a Democrat, said a tentative compromise on how to spend profits from a newly created state lottery was in trouble and he threatened to veto the reapportionment bill supported by Republican leaders of the Legislature.

The battle flag of the Confederacy, which has divided South Carolina from its perch atop its Statehouse since 1962, will come off the dome on July 1, under a tentative compromise reached late tonight by the state House of Representatives.

SÏ PAULO, Brazil -- Brazilian and Turkish government officials said Sunday that their leaders had brokered a tentative compromise with Iran in the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program, a development that could undermine efforts in the United Nations to impose new sanctions on the Iranians.

According to scientists, diplomats and other government officials, the tentative compromise reached by Brazil and the atomic agency would allow the international inspectors to see the pipes and valves of the machinery at the plant, which is scheduled to open in a few months.

BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C5 Deal to Preserve Plaza Hotel Union workers and the owner of the Plaza Hotel in New York reached a tentative compromise to retain its Grand Ballroom, Palm Court, Oak Bar and hundreds of rooms while allowing condominiums.

Republican Congressional leaders reached a tentative budget compromise on Tuesday that would extend several of President Bush's major tax cuts.

In recent years there have been tentative signs of compromise.

That would end his power to unsettle the UUP and to block even the most tentative moves towards compromise.

"US and Iranian officials seem in recent comments to be outlining a willingness, or at least tentative steps, toward compromise over the stickiest issue of the nuclear dispute," he wrote.

But he recently smuggled an open letter past his minders that condemned the Guardians for abusing these powers by eliminating reformist candidates from the election rolls.Whether or not a tentative spirit of compromise is emerging from the battleground, many reform-minded contenders, however mild, are still likely to be cast aside by the Guardians on "technical" grounds.