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To promote still greater social mobility by admitting students from disadvantaged schools who are not likely to do as well as other applicants would compromise the university’s educational standards, and it is not obvious that universities should go that far.
Finding a way to prevent this antioxidant response could thus help to compromise females’ reproductive systems.
Many US conservatives see Lula as a hardcore socialist unable to compromise, and refuse to recognize that he has changed significantly.
While other Poles demanded vengeful rough justice against the Communist rulers and their accomplices, Michnik counseled negotiation, compromise, and reconciliation, even with former oppressors.
Postwar European social democracy was always a compromise with capitalism.
The Republican Party is in danger of being taken over by fanatics who see compromise in government as a form of villainous treachery.
So some compromise must be found should Kerry win.
But there is a second, more fundamental, part to any viable compromise: a redefinition of transatlantic relations.
These leaders preferred terrorism, because they were not ready for a historic compromise with the Jewish state.
Even now, Hungary and Romania feel peer pressure and face sanctions from their EU partners when they engage in dubious electoral practices, compromise their courts’ independence, or discriminate against minorities.
In other words, Suu Kyi will have to accept the same lesson the generals did: The best way to retain power is often to compromise.
What Thailand needs is the kind of compromise and accommodation achieved in Myanmar.
But the primacy of bureaucracy over democracy is a core principle that EU institutions will never compromise.
Besides, working in Beijing is itself a constant struggle of conscience and compromise.
On this front, however, China’s leaders made no compromise with Obama.
The reality is that Europe does manage to move ahead, but step by step through mutual compromise.
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.
In the long run, the best outcome is a peaceful resolution to the sovereignty issue, or, barring that, a compromise that satisfies both sides’ core interests.
She insists that no other compromise is available, and that this is the only way to bring an end to a debate that has divided the country.
The hardline Brexiteers will reject any compromise with the EU.
If, on the other hand, this attempt, too, should fail, or end in a lazy, useless compromise, Europe’s decline will accelerate and transatlantic relations will become increasingly turbulent.
We had to compromise and settle for the best possible results.
The Lisbon Treaty was a compromise constitutional arrangement that would nevertheless give the EU greater weight and authority precisely for occasions such as the Copenhagen summit, when global issues are addressed.
Squaring the Eurozone’s Vicious CircleSALAMANCA – The eurozone is caught in a diabolical loop, in which weak banking systems harm their sovereigns’ fiscal positions, which in turn compromise the banking system’s stability.
Some speculate that one reason Xi may have tapped former Vice Premier Wang Qishan to lead the fight against corruption is that he and his wife have no children – no grasping offspring to compromise his efforts.
Even if the country avoids going over the “fiscal cliff,” a poorly designed political compromise that cuts the deficit too quickly could push an already weak economy into recession.
Trump could win personal kudos with a compromise that involved some concessions, both real and apparent, that Xi is willing to make – on the size of the trade imbalance, on intellectual property laws, on further market opening for US multinationals and financial institutions, and so on.
Russia Hits the Reset ButtonMOSCOW – NATO soldiers marching in Red Square on V-E Day;Moscow agreeing on a compromise resolution of the 40-year-old sea-boundary dispute with Norway; the sight of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin kneeling at the memorial to the Polish officers murdered by Stalin at Katyn: these are a few glimpses of what a European newspaper described as a kinder, gentler Russia.
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments proscribe the use of firearms to compromise other implicit rights as they may become apparent.
That compromise – between Germany and Southern Europe, and between US Republicans and Democrats – should be economically and politically feasible.
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