If no decision can be reached, the accused is acquitted for the time, or, in a civil dispute, a compromise is imposed.

Had the Missouri Compromise been kept inviolate to the present day, slavery might still have existed below thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude.

As an award based on compromise is seldom, if ever, satisfactory to both parties, the right of appeal would in substantially every case have been invoked and the award would have been reviewed by the Body of Delegates, who would practically render a final decision since the new arbitrators would presumably adopt it.

No exception or compromise is allowed, and no "half-time" system or "rush" through the school to suit the convenience of the factory or the farmer.

The other syllogism runs thus: Expediency is essential in politics; so also is compromise; therefore some particular compromise is expedient.

We agree with him, that no man of sense will deny that compromise is essential in politics, and especially in our politics.

The English have not changed their nature, the “political” spirit is still rampant, and we are ruled by the view that because compromise is necessary in politics it is also a good thing in the intellectual domain.

This compromise is effected by the doctrine of postulation.

But at the same time there is the man whose breath is sincerity, and to whom no compromise is possible, and no mediocrity golden.

Entirely divorced from the other, neither is legitimate, and a compromise is the only possibility; while in the future advancing evolution will bring the two into complete harmony.

What the country wants is a permanent settlement; and it has learned, by repeated trial, that compromise is not a cement, but a wedge.

Certainly if life's an art, like composing music or painting pictures, then compromise is in the very fabric of it.

This compromise is called the "Compromise of 1850."

Compromise is the very essence of a partial reformation; and compromise in matters of moral and religious concern, where it is not folly, is crime.

And yet, as for the carrying on of social life, the old must continue so long as the new is not ready, this perpetual compromise is an indispensable accompaniment of a normal development.'

An instance of such compromise is afforded by Lionardo da Vinci, who belongs, as far as dates go, to the last half of the fifteenth century, but who must, on any estimate of his achievement, be classed with Michael Angelo among the final and supreme masters of the full Renaissance.

I know, Master Furness, that, from what you have said, your views run not there with mine, and that you think a compromise is desirable.

That compromise is not yet complete.

The temper of compromise is characteristic of the English as contrasted with the foreign Reformation.

For the necessity of political compromise is no excuse for this.

The compromise is necessarily of the nature of a reaction; but the interplay of action and re-action is the law of ethical as of chemical forces.

There will be a sacrifice of some of the things the city gives, but a compromise is the only possible outcome of many claims.

" "Compromise is the word that men use when the Devil gets a victory over God's cause.

The strife of principles which during this year has shattered Europe to its foundations is one in which no compromise is possible.

Show how compromise is often necessary in political action.