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Yet, no sooner had he been sworn in than he acquiesced in precisely the kind of political compromise to which he and the BJP – which won a parliamentary majority, and thus does not depend on coalition partners for its government’s survival – was supposed to be immune.
The great dissident writer Nadezhda Mandelstam had seen for us a future in which we could only “hope against hope”; yet here was a leader who saw for us a future not of squalor and moral compromise, but of freedom and opportunity.
This is why recent proposals, such as the Franco-German Meseberg Declaration on eurozone reform, are based on a compromise: combining some degree of risk-sharing with measures to reduce risk and induce greater market discipline by, for example, restructuring debts.
Europeans like to talk about the values of peace and compromise, while US military might takes care of their safety.
As a result, Modi will not have to compromise with the other national or regional parties to pursue his legislative agenda.
Still, an open competitive process, even with all the inevitable political horse-trading and compromise that this entails, will most likely result in better Executive Board members than under the current system.
So Evgeny Primakov become the premier as a generally accepted compromise.
Wanting to avoid war, all sides solve disputes by compromise, end the conflict forever, and move onto other things.
What the liberal-democratic approach does get right is that there is virtually always room for compromise.
Thus, there is scope for a compromise that recognizes both sides’ legitimate concerns.
The political cost of a serious compromise on these matters would be too high for China, but it does no harm to analyze them and find ways to enhance dialogue.
While the old guard had to strike a balance between the different Arab countries that backed the PLO, the new guard will have to find a workable solution with their rivals in Hamas if a viable compromise agreement with Israel is to be found.
Europeans should not have to compromise their genuinely held concerns about privacy just to promote trade, which is simply a means (sometimes) to achieving higher living standards.
Ever since UN peacekeepers were deployed in 1964, the UN has been the only party acceptable to all sides as a “midwife of compromise.”
Such examples of bilateral nuclear-security cooperation, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s nuclear-security peer-review service, highlight a promising point: a willingness to work together on nuclear-materials security need not compromise sensitive information.
Subsequent negotiations led to a compromise agreement in November for a hybrid AU-UN force that would deploy in three stages.
But wise leaders are necessarily pragmatic, because messy reality demands compromise and accommodation.
Both sides have substantially reduced their options, thereby limiting the possibility of a diplomatic compromise.
Too many political leaders, including President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the leaders of radical groups in the Middle East, prefer military solutions to peaceful compromise.
Every state in the region must embrace compromise and mutual respect as the basis of a lasting settlement.
That is testimony to most US legislators’ common sense and to their willingness to compromise in order to avoid doing serious harm to the country they serve – until now, that is.
For this reason, Europe’s leaders should reach a compromise on the next Commission president quickly and transparently, thereby dispelling the impression among ordinary citizens that European politics is shaped by a dysfunctional process of behind-the-scenes horse-trading.
Merkel must now determine how to forge a compromise that does not discredit the Europe-wide democratic process, which currently has more support in Germany than in any other large European country.
The Siniora government and the opposition are likely to reach a compromise within the next few months, probably on the basis of some variant of Arab League proposals.
No matter how talented UK and EU negotiators are, there is no compromise that will close these gaps completely.
Moreover, grain suppliers’ exposure to extreme weather may compromise their ability to sustain supplies, with knock-on effects for import-dependent countries.
Only after his re-election in autumn 2002, did he give up his previous populist stance, short-term responses and neo-corporatist ways of trying to talk trade unions and employers' associations into compromise.
The euro zone should therefore offer the UK an honorable compromise in which Britain would be allowed to become a full member of the EMU and take a seat in all of its institutions like the European Central Bank and the ministerial Eurogroup, while also being able to keep the pound in its relations with third countries.
Such a compromise would increase the EMU’s weight both inside and outside Europe.
Nonetheless, peaceful protest, lawsuits, political negotiation, compromise, and ultimately fresh elections would provide both countries – and many others in the region and beyond – a far better way to resolve their internal tensions than the approaches their leaders currently employ.
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