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Iran and Saudi Arabia, with their proxies on the ground, remain at loggerheads over how to resolve the conflict;Turkey is engaged in its own war against the Kurds; and the Sunni opposition remains unwilling to compromise.
Do not compromise by partial privatization or partial reduction of state control.
A compromise is being worked out, but it must pass the test of reality.
Some Iranian reformers and exiles put a bright face on Ahmadinejad’s election, arguing that his administration is more likely to show the regime’s real face and disabuse any Western hopes of compromise.
The result was a compromise between these two groups.
Lacking a culture of political compromise, the breakdown of central authority in 2011 was not surprising.
Syria – which has become a true humanitarian disaster, with no end in sight – poses the most severe test of the region’s ability to compromise and reconcile.
Dynamic, peaceful societies will never emerge across the Middle East unless all of their citizens embrace the lost art of compromise and embark on a consensual process of nation building.
Consensus building, compromise, and cooperation within and among Middle Eastern and Arab societies must be the watchwords for banishing those destructive forces from our lives.
After Mary’s death, Elizabeth I would eventually institute a compromise.
When governments can repress those journalists with impunity, and when others compromise their supposed commitment to basic human rights for political or partisan goals, the truth remains hidden, with serious consequences.
They believe that – as in the past – the fiscal showdown will end with a midnight compromise that avoids both default and a government shutdown.
And when the sacred takes over politics, compromise becomes almost impossible.
Though carefully calibrated force can, at times, curb the human costs of a conflict, what is really needed is compromise, based on the understanding that a stable and conflict-free environment is in everyone’s interests.
Before any political compromise can occur, however, a degree of religious reconciliation is needed.
Many observers claim that France’s intransigence stymied a compromise that the other parties would have considered acceptable.
By upholding this principled stance, while keeping the prospect of a compromise open, France could guide the creation of a more easily exportable agreement.
The demise of compromise and collegiality in domestic politics has raised new challenges in America’s interaction with others as well.
Far from pursuing careful deliberation and smart compromise, US Republicans today are pretending that the cuts for which they are striving will carry no costs.
The EU was and is institutionalized compromise, and must remain so now, in the midst of a global economic crisis.
But, despite Europe's collective sigh of relief, the compromise does not preclude the need for further tough negotiations on a new financial-assistance program that should be introduced by the end of June.
Modern democracy, with its mix of universal suffrage and property rights, looks remarkably like a compromise born of centuries of military competition among constitutionally evolving states, according to which the general public supplies the manpower to fight and moneyed interests supply the capital to train and equip the troops.
A new global agreement must be science-based, not a lowest-common-denominator compromise watered down by vested interests.
We may see some compromise between European (Sarkozy-style) capitalism and an authoritarian, protectionist model with a lot of industrial policy.
Clinton, on the other hand, though widely perceived as a foreign-policy “hawk,” is still of the “in” mindset – someone who knows the value of trade, discussion, and compromise.
Few of the challenges that it raises can be met unilaterally; more often than not, cooperation, compromise, and a degree of multilateralism are essential.
Should the reformers compromise to survive, those dominoes will merely be falling in the dark.
Germany’s Will to CompromiseBERLIN – “Confront, then compromise” could well become Germany’s mantra for successful European Union negotiations.
At the end of the day, conditioning retirement benefits on work represents a fair compromise between the self-defeating technocratic approach and the unsustainable populist approach.
The ALBA group pushed hard for a vote, or a compromise on its terms, which it could then flaunt to the world and to domestic public opinion.
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