Example sentences for: compromise

How can you use “compromise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Its composition mustn't seem to them like a compromise favorable to Belgrade , " Le Monde said, for "if the hundreds of thousands of Kosovars chased from their land cannot return there freely to reconstruct their future, the allied forces will have lost the war."

  • There are different explanations for the various holdups above--the sentencing commission is empty because Democratic and Republican senators failed for months to compromise on a slate of nominees; Holbrooke's nomination was delayed by an almost-but-not-entirely meritless ethics charge; the Beijing job is difficult to fill because no one wants to defend Clinton's China policy to Senate Republicans, etc.--but together they suggest a process that is astonishingly screwed up.

  • Discarding the deanship was "thoughtful and reasonable," admits Mark Shields (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ), but it was more political compromise than homage to principle.

  • The Post exclusive informs that a Defense Department team has investigated allegations of a Greek breach of NATO security and concluded that there has been "no compromise of technology whatsoever."

  • Based on these analyses we selected 25,000 cycles with a "burn in" of 5,000 as a compromise between precision of probability estimation and computational time spent.


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