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11 sentences with 'compromise'

Example sentences and phrases with the word compromise and other words derived from it.


• « During the mediation, both parties showed a willingness to compromise. »
compromise: During the mediation, both parties showed a willingness to compromise.
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• « It was within the compromise with social democracy that the modern welfare state was born. »
• « Roger Sherman of Connecticut offered a compromise to unblock the thorny issue of representation. »
• « After 500 BCE, a compromise government called oligarchy tended to replace both aristocracies and tyrannies. »
• « As of 1618, this compromise had been in place since the mid-16th century and seemed relatively stable, despite the religious wars that raged across the borders of France and the Netherlands. »
• « The left-right compromise that had seen widespread support for nationalised industry, free health care and education, housing subsidies and strong trade unions collapsed for good from the mid-1970s onwards. »
• « Since representation in the House of Representatives was based on a state's population, the three-fifths compromise gave additional political power to the slave states, though not as much as if the total population, both free and slave, had been used. »
• « To gain acceptance for his plan, Hamilton reached a compromise with Virginians Madison and Jefferson whereby, in exchange for their support, he would give up New York City as the nation's capital and accept a more southern location, which they preferred. »
• « The compromise collapsed because of one particular incident, the attempted assassination of two Catholic imperial officials by Protestant nobles in Prague, when Emperor Ferdinand II attempted to crack down on Protestants in Bohemia (corresponding to today's Czech Republic). »
• « Thus, one of the plans envisaged by wartime governments in the West was the reward for the people who had endured and suffered the war - this phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the "post-war compromise" between governments and elites on the one hand and workers on the other. »
• « Under the three-fifths compromise in the 1787 Constitution, each slave was to be counted as three-fifths of a person. Article 1, section 2, stipulated that "the representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states ... according to their respective numbers ... which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to serve for a term of years [white servants], and excluding Indians not subject to taxation, three-fifths of all other persons". »

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