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We had found our compromise.
Democracy, in order to work, requires that reasonable men and women take the time to understand and debate difficult, sometimes complex issues, and they do so in an atmosphere which strives for the type of understanding that leads to, if not agreement, then at least a productive and workable compromise.
But at the same time, the government has hinted that they want some kind of deal, that they want me to compromise the journalists with which I've been working, to come back, and I want to make it very clear that I did not do this to be safe.
The question is, does a constraint force a compromise?
The distinction between a constraint and a compromise is obviously very subtle, but it's very central to my attitude to work.
Is that a compromise?
These illnesses can result in suicide; they often compromise one's ability to work at one's full potential; and they're the cause of so many tragedies harder to measure: lost relationships and connections, missed opportunities to pursue dreams and ideas.
And it had turned me from my upright, standing, running form, into a seated compromise of myself.
Now, I always thought that good marriages were about compromise and understanding and allowing the person to have the space to be themselves.
They don't compromise.
So I had to compromise with operational research work, which had the intellectual challenge that interested me and the commercial value that was valued by the clients: things like scheduling freight trains, time-tabling buses, stock control, lots and lots of stock control.
There was a sense that they were each yearning for their tribe, but that comfort comes with compromise, because Will cannot commit to one woman.
Conditions are very difficult, but we cannot afford to compromise on those principles which made AIMS work.
And so after complaints and insistence of trying to get this work destroyed, it was finally the year that Michelangelo died that the Church finally found a compromise, a way to save the painting, and that was in putting up these extra 30 covers, and that happens to be the origin of fig-leafing.
So we met with a nutritionist, and we came up with a compromise of not eating from sunrise to sunset every day until the governor of Bali would agree to meet with us to talk about how to stop plastic bags on Bali.
The Chinese objected, and so the compromise was "more than 90 percent."
We're less likely to compromise, which means we're not listening to each other.
And while omegas are good fats for your brain, long-term consumption of other fats, like trans and saturated fats, may compromise brain health.
The resulting internal conflict, known as cognitive dissonance, keeps you trapped, as each compromise makes it more painful to admit you've been deceived.
Of course, I pushed him for details, and the long answer that came out was essentially "compromise, compromise and more compromise."
Yet he chose to embrace his enemies instead, while forcing his own party to compromise.
They're really good at compromise and cooperation.
And Johnson and Lakoff talk about everything that collaborating on a work of art entails: effort, compromise, patience, shared goals.
We are constantly told that conflict is bad that compromise is good; that conflict is bad but consensus is good; that conflict is bad and collaboration is good.
Now, you might be somewhat skeptical of a lawyer arguing about the benefits of conflict and creating problems for compromise, but I did also qualify as a mediator, and these days, I spend my time giving talks about ethics for free.
We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do.
And the tools that APT28 used to compromise its victims' networks demonstrated a thoughtful, well-resourced effort that had taken place for now over a decade in Moscow's time zone from about 9 am to 6 pm.
It enables us to manage partisanship when that's possible, and it enables us actually to overcome partisan division and produce compromise, when and only when that is possible.
And every time, daily, after we have meeting, what compromise we have, whatever, I go, I write a short email, send it.
Wells’ unwillingness to compromise any aspect of her vision of justice shined a light on the weak points of the various rights movements, and ultimately made them stronger— but also made it difficult for her to find a place within them.
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