78 Verbs to Use for the Word compromising

Patricia wore black-and-white for some six months, and Colonel Musgrave accepted the compromise tacitly.

It makes no compromises, not even for the necessities of nations.

Thus "He affects a fondness for classical music," "The little orphan's story affected those who heard it"; "We effected a compromise."

So the government advisers suggested a compromise.

Flaccus called the slaves to arms and intrenched himself in the temple of Diana, while he at the same time sent his younger son Quintus to the enemy's camp in order if possible to arrange a compromise.

Many of the border States will not be long in raising pretensions to which they will join threats of new secessions; they will again bring up the question of the Territories, and will propose compromises.

The home authorities were anxious to find some workable compromise.

"I hope the Republicans will offer no compromise," remarked one excellent person who has not favored the revolution.

Can we do better than to recommend a compromise, that he may return without delay to his own Calabria?" "The concern is weighty, and it demands deliberation.

Heated partisans hate compromise; yet war itself generally ends in compromise.

The English Church, "to whose right it principally belongs to elect the king," as Theobald had once said in words which Gregory VII. would have approved, beat down all opposition of the angry nobles; and in November 1153 Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester and brother of Stephen, brought about a final compromise.

Oh, yes, we little china people have a variety of rivets, thank God, to prevent too frequent nodding and too cowardly a compromise with baseness,rivets that are a part of us and force us into flashes of upright living, almost in spite of ourselves, when duty and inclination grapple.

Even granted that facts now conform to the necessities of our thoughts, why should they so comport themselves for ever? Let us, therefore, try a compromise, which ignores neither that which we bring to experience (like empiricism), nor that which we gain from experience (like apriorism).

On the 11th of March Seward, of New York, now becoming prominent in the Senate, spoke, deprecating all compromise on a matter of principle, and declaring that there was a "higher law than the Constitution itself."

But the Fergusons were staunch Covenanters, and Annie, if we may judge from her marriage with one of that party, must have favored "compromise."

I can not doubt that the American people, bound together by kindred blood and common traditions, still cherish a paramount regard for the Union of their fathers, and that they are ready to rebuke any attempt to violate its integrity, to disturb the compromises on which it is based, or to resist the laws which have been enacted under its authority.

Whigs attempt a compromise.

It is a fact that the penal code now in force in this country represents a compromise, so far as the theory of personal responsibility is concerned, between the old theory of free will and the conclusions of the positive school which denies this free will.

[Footnote A: Mr. Clay, in conducting the Missouri compromise, found it necessary to argue, that the admission of Missouri, as a slaveholding state, would aid in bringing about the termination of slavery.

In it he denounced the abolitionists and defended the compromise, because, he said, slavery could not exist in such an arid country as New Mexico.

Now, it is not in the least a question of whether we happen to like this quality or that: Mr. Shaw, I rather fancy, would dislike such verbose compromise more than downright plotting.

This forced the compromise, and after a bitter and angry discussion it was agreed 1.

A fine-looking Syrian officer in khaki, with the usual cloth flap behind his helmet that forms a compromise between western smartness and eastern comfort, strode into the room and bore down on us.

Isa brought home some tulle and white jessamine with which she is deftly freshening the pretty compromise between a bonnet and a hat which she wears on Sunday; also a charming parasol, with a china knob and a wreath of roses at the side.

Connecticut has the honor of furnishing this valuable compromise.

78 Verbs to Use for the Word  compromising