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The governor has come up with the best compromise the business community can get.

We're talking about responsible parking. If we don't find a compromise, this will snowball.

You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other historic periods where we've cut dramatically the size of the police force, there's been a concomitant increase ... in crime, ... You can't compromise public safety.

We know that, for an agreement, we have to compromise and pay a price. I hope the other side will also recognize this fact.

We're striving to clean up the process. It's a compromise that everyone is frustrated with. I'm sure we're going to have some pretty heated debates about it.

The reason that the law is set up with secret ballots is that it's too easy to compromise someone's intention.

We had to have a meeting about what to wear, ... The compromise was to wear black sweaters and slacks!

We had to compromise ... (but) it's a good beginning.

To assume we're going to have our head over a barrel and be forced to accept some sort of compromise bill is not the position we find ourselves in right now. The moratorium remains in effect. There is nothing new; the only thing new is this tendency to provide an alternate plan to one that wants to drill closer to Florida's shores.

To a large degree the durability of this compromise is going to depend on the actions of President Bush. He can keep it or blow it up. It depends on what kind of judges he nominates.

We've reached a compromise that's the best for both of us.

What hackers are trying to find is, if they can make a bad Excel file or a bad Word file, does the program crash and allow them to compromise the system.

What are we going to do about winning the election? Where are we going to turn to have a viable chance to win this election? And a viable chance to win this election is coming up with a candidate that most people can agree on. Randy Daniels could be a compromise consensus candidate because he's not polarized on either side.

What appears to be going on here is some sort of compromise. The court feels strongly about national security and the president's ability to conduct foreign affairs and military affairs, yet also responsible for the rule of law.

We were pretty happy with the 128 teams we got. Any more and we would've had to compromise quality, which is something we never want to do.

What the big issue is going to be is how much of an adverse visual impact it has, ... We haven't even begun to look at all the different options. Can it be moved? Can it be painted white? There are all these different values to consider and there's lots of opportunity for compromise to minimize the visual impact and still provide the cell coverage people need.

We will not compromise or kneel in the face of injustice. We will not let evil triumph over virtue,

We will never waver in upholding the one China principle, never give up our efforts for peaceful reunification, never change our policy of placing hopes on the people in Taiwan, and never compromise in our fight against 'Taiwan independence' forces' secessionist activities,

We're discussing it. Everything is on the table -- except compromise.

We're very happy that she's talking about something the homeowners have supported for quite sometime as a compromise solution.

Victims of sexual assault experience traumatic, life-changing events, ... We should work to protect their privacy, not compromise it.

very unwilling to listen, stubborn, unwilling to compromise on anything.

We should find a compromise which would suit everyone,

We think that's a perfectly reasonable compromise and they should comply with that. As far as I'm aware, the other manufacturers have said they are happy with the situation. We need to be equal to everybody.

Everything must now be done to help the negotiating parties reach a sustainable compromise as quickly as possible.

Bisexuality is not so much a copout as a fearful compromise.

Biased results? No way. Providing great search is the core of what we do. Business partnerships will never compromise the integrity or objectivity of our search results. If a partner's page ranks high, it's because they have a good answer to your search, not because of their business relationship with us.

Every settlement involves compromise, but here we have a very robust settlement. I hope it sends the message that it's cheaper to do it right and comply with the law the first time.

Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.

a true definition of compromise -- a little give, a little take.

Consumers want products that fit in a health-conscious lifestyle and yet they are unwilling to compromise on taste. Our 100 Calorie Mini Bites gives consumers 'snack balance' -- their favorite brands in convenient portion packaging that takes the guess work out of calorie control.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

Don't take the bait. Decline to answer any question that you would feel would compromise your duty to do your job.

Don't ever compromise yourself. You're all you've got.

Currently only the Unites States is against the new resolution, which is actually the best possible compromise among UN members and reflects a fragile balance of all members' concerns.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

Another compromise could be in the offing. What we could see is (OPEC President and Venezuelan Oil Minister) Ali Rodriguez stepping down to take on the role.

Another compromise could be in the offing, ... What we could see is (OPEC President and Venezuelan Oil Minister) Ali Rodriguez stepping down to take on the role.

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Due to the magnitude of the Final, we are not prepared to compromise or take any risks on the stadium being unable to stage such a significant event.

Even if our intelligence people were following one of the guys around, that didn't compromise the other cells. They were still able to operate. The core competency of these people was to remain invisible to U.S. intelligence. If they can do that successfully, they can do whatever they want.

Folks, when we're dealing with civil liberties, you don't compromise them.

Federalism is now the core issue. In light of Kurdish intransigence it makes it difficult to hope for a compromise.

There should have been a vote last night, and they should now finish it today. The key point is terms of federalism. They're trying to reach a compromise and it's very difficult -- the issues are controversial.

There should be a compromise between having good, clean teeth for television and not looking freakish. But they take it to an extreme.

There's got to be some compromise. The stakes are just too high.

The resolution is not perfect, but it is a compromise that can be accepted by all UN members, so Chin a hopes it can be adopted.

The resolution is going through Campus Safety and to the administration that it affects. We're hoping to reach a compromise with administration that as long as there isn't suspicion of a College violation that the College will provide two forms of communication prior to coming to student's rooms.

The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.

It would jeopardize Goggle's position with its competitors and compromise relations with users.

The whole issue is closed. The final compromise satisfies about 90, or even 95 percent of our demands. The Czech republic will not veto the VAT deal.

These breaches compromise virtually every part of the immigration system itself, leaving vulnerabilities that have been and likely are being exploited by criminals and adversaries of the United States.

These assertions are false. I can't speak for (all parents and community members), but the ones that have talked to me said they liked the calendar this year because they had the time off after New Year's, and they think this compromise for next year is reasonable.

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.

The Senate compromise may have fallen apart, but not everything is lost. The only way we're going to get ahead is to send a stronger message.

The Secretary General emphasizes that compromise and mutual understanding are critical if the parties are to quickly resolve the remaining issues under consideration.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems beforethey arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must bewilling to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait foreverbefore taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

I've never been exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to being critical of leagues or people in sports, and if this was in any way going to compromise my role as host of 'Real Sports,' then it was probably something we shouldn't enter into, a relationship we shouldn't enter into.

I've asked leaders of the Teamsters Union and the United Parcel Service to meet with me today at the Labor Department and they have both agreed. I intend to talk with each party individually to find out what it will take to move these talks forward and to urge greater flexibility and a willingness to compromise to get back to the bargaining table,

Teams are doing their homework. They're figuring out a way to get eight guys in the box, and doing it in a way we can't account for. That's their way to control the tempo of the game, but when you do that you compromise your coverage, You have man-to-man coverage every play, and they can't do that all day. Teams will eventually jump out of it or we are going to be a passing team, because we can do both. We're two-dimensional.

Sometimes people confuse the notion that you're going to compromise sovereignty with collaboration.

Roy is not yet prepared to accept he'll have to compromise,

Rosa Parks was the inspiration... simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and simple child of God who refused to let anybody or anything force her to compromise her spirit.

Russia and Ukraine should as quickly as possible find a sustainable compromise which does not affect gas deliveries to Europe.

President Nixon cancelled in 1973 the Hubble Telescope while it was still in the development phase. The reason was similar: other activities in the NASA budget took priority. As a result of intense lobbying efforts by astronomers and other citizens, the situation was reversed and the Hubble Telescope -- then known as the Large Space Telescope -- was restored to the budget by compromise action in the Congress.

Rather than compromise, parties are more likely to stake extreme ground knowing they won't get what they want because it allows them to communicate to voters what they stand for.

Product quality was the first priority on the first day of Vista (development) and we won't compromise on that. We needed just a few more weeks and that put us in what we would call a bubble where some partners would be impacted more than others and we decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

Our concern is we've gone to a great deal of effort through the (National Environmental Policy Act) process to reach what we consider to be a very-hard-fought for ... compromise solution. That's the only process we feel is in place for us to follow. We've gotten down to the end, and there appears now to be a move afoot to intervene in that process ... and prevent this public works project from moving forward.

Other countries don't compromise their principles for other people. We should not compromise.

The one issue where we differed but hope soon to reach a compromise is over Turkey.

The old man said we are ready to give you the money we use to buy food for our children rather than kneel down because no one should compromise on their rights.

After intense debate and discussion, whereupon the guiding question was whether we compromise with or take on the ZANU-PF dictatorship ... the council resolved to stay out of the ZANU-PF senate project,

Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.

So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Once we begin to work on a compromise document, I think new problems will continue to emerge.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Anything that's going to compromise that and is going to set us back, then, as you can tell, in the American culture we'll look for the next best thing. And football will be gone, and it will be hockey next year.

Any security compromise is serious. This attack alone may not be a big deal but it may turn out that in combination with others it has greater impact.

As commissioner I have the skills to negotiate and the skills to work with and through people and to bring groups together and work for betterment of everyone. Regardless of what you say, if you don't bring all groups to the table, you can't negotiate a compromise. But if everyone is involved a compromise can be reached and everyone is much happier.

The bottom line (is) the NTSB did not have this information, there has been a lot of time wasted, a lot of wasted money and a compromise of public safety,

The breadth of products means customers don't have to compromise when accommodating their lifestyle choices, and vehicle-wide improvements increase the capability of the new vehicles in exactly the ways that drive customers to full-size SUVs.

a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing energy demands and the citizens of Florida who oppose drilling in the waters off their coastline.

A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society.

You simply plug in and play, ... We have tried to create Gizmondo in such a way that all the functionalities work in a way. We didn't want to compromise on any of these applications, so we feel that they would stand as one as different settings strong enough just to be a products selling just for that feature.

This is a way of compromise that we must call for because Thailand does not have enough money to hold several rounds of elections.

This is a total smoke-free bill, not a compromise that would balance the various interests I had hoped for.

This is not something Floridians should compromise on, ... This compromise is not in the interests of Floridians. It's really more in the interests of the oil companies.

This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.

This is about principled compromise, not compromised principles.

This is an attempt to broker a compromise that has completely backfired,

This is a 'meet them halfway' kind of compromise.

They're trying to straddle, and it always seems like a good compromise. But it can sometimes not work very well in practice. By limiting what services they offer and what they have on the ground in China, it's difficult to see how they won't be limited by that.

Almost all these are ultimately approved by the Plan Commission, ... although sometimes it takes some give and take and compromise with the neighbors.

They have been debating for a year the question of covering everyone . . . and yet it appears that the legislative compromise will only provide $144 million through the new employer assessment . . . in its first three years.

There was no point of compromise or level of agreement. The city made it clear they want the result of lawsuit to be receipt of school impact fees. We discussed the possibility of the city finding some other source of funding for the charter schools and their ability to impose their own impact fee.

There will be no compromise before we receive an apology.

There ought to be a compromise on this; I think there will be a compromise on it. Unfortunately, there are people that want to be inflexible on this issue.

This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you that no Iranian government will make a compromise on this issue,

They're continuing to build a franchise in a way that doesn't compromise the loan quality, it doesn't compromise the balance sheet materially, it does add to earnings and it does add to their presence in that market, ... I can't argue with what they're doing.