Company member initially gives hope of settlements

Usage examples of compromises.

Each time, from a stripping down as absolute as that of death, and from a humility which surpasses that of defeat and of prayer, I marvel to see again reforming the complex web of experiences shared and refused, of mutual responsibilities, awkward avowals, transparent lies, and passionate compromises between my pleasures and those of the Other, so many bonds impossible to break but nevertheless so quickly loosened.

But we have understood nothing about illness so long as we have not recognized its odd resemblance to war and to love, its compromises, its feints, its exactions, that strange and unique amalgam produced by the mixture of a temperament and a malady.

For it must be understood, that though South Carolina and the Gulf States might have accepted certain compromises, they would not have been satisfied in so accepting them.

The American governments have been much given to compromises, but had Mr.

I know all about Red Cloud's compromises to try to save the Great Sioux Reserve and the Black Hills.

From this time written records began to be kept of the legal compromises made before the King's Court to render possible the transference of land.