All the compromises he was ready to offer were addressed to that part of the South which was seeking to make an issue on slavery.
If the Union were not to be sundered, the Republicans must pledge themselves to a new and extensive compromise; it must be far different from those historic compromises that had preceded it.
Although compromises were now necessary, he remained a man of principle and the Fourteen Points a contract absolutely binding upon him.
In the course of the compromises and delays of the Conference, there were many questions on which, in order to reach any conclusion at all, it was necessary to leave a margin of vagueness and uncertainty.
You have not to read very deep in contemporary literature to learn what the world thinks about the Christian who ignores or compromises his standards.
We have accepted plain departures from or compromises with Christian teaching as the recognised law of action.
While religious teachers asquiesce in the present set of compromises as an adequate expression of Christian character, we may expect a decline in the Church as a spiritual force, whatever may be true of it as a social force.
I was seized upon, for a time I was altogether possessed by a passion to serve him fitly and recklessly, to make an end to compromises with comfort and self-love and secondary things.
But nothing compromises the Gospel so much as a disposition turned towards outward things.
Then, as at all times, religious society forestalled civil society, and gave it those two great principles of order and liberty, which popery compromises or annuls.
Congress, of the productive industry of the country, together with all the compromises and coalitions he has entered into for the attainment of those objects.
Let us abandon the hopeless effort forcompromises that cannot be enforced!
The time had obviously come when there was no longer any use in the adoption of compromises or the passage of conciliatory laws by statesmen whose first concern was for the preservation of the Union.
Compromises were no longer binding upon men's consciences or conduct.
Among its provisions were to be found three most important compromises with the slavery interest, three most important recognitions of slavery.
Sir, it is the best bill on which Congress ever acted; for it annuls all past compromises with slavery, and makes all futurecompromises impossible.
Compromises have been effected; the Bolsheviki have conciliated the peasants somewhat, and the latter have, in many cases, sought to make the best of a bad situation.
Lenine is not afraid to make or to admit making compromises; he admits that compromises have been made.
They are apt, too, to think that nothing is good but what is perfect, and that there are nocompromises or modifications to be made in consideration of difference of opinion or in deference to other men's judgment.
My colleague has already remarked that this petition proceeds from persons many of whom were open supporters of the alleged Compromises of 1850, including even the odious Fugitive Slave Act.
Sir, it is the best bill on which Congress ever acted; for it annuls all past compromises with Slavery, and makes any future compromises impossible.
We should listen to no modifying terms or compromises that may be proposed by the proprietors of the unprofitable and ungodly institution.
The Compromisesof 1850 and the Fugitive-Slave Law.
He laughs in this way at the makeshift compromises of statesmen and theologians and economists saying that what those men hate more than anything else is a fixed principle.
Other countries seem more willing to make practical compromises between heaven and earth.
A dozen men originate it; a dozen compromisestwist and alter it; a dozen offices whose names are scarcely known outside of Washington put it into execution.
Then the compromises of 1850 were declared to be a full and final settlement of the question.
He bases his opposition to such repeal upon the ground that these laws are themselves one of the compromises of the Constitution of the United States.
Legislation is usually a mad scramble in which the final result, be it good or bad, gets evolved out of compromises and bargains among a swarm of clashing local and personal interests.
What compromises were made between the two sections down to the time of the Civil War?
This glance at thecompromises in the political history of the nation prepares us to look at those in the Church.
Here, too, compromises on the subject of slavery were made as in the State, and generally from the same motives and always with the same disappointing results.
This plea and these men were largely influential in carrying forward some of the most iniquitous compromises preceding the war.
Compromises are the results of considerations of policy, and are unheard of among fanatics, such as my opponents assert the early followers of Jesus to have been.
Compromises between hostile sects, in the rare cases in which they have taken place, have been brought about by means of external coercion.
It is this: If possession be mania, there is nothing in the language which the Evangelists have attributed to our Lord which compromises the truthfulness of his character.
Compromises have frequently originated among politicians, but these have in vain tried their healing influences among contending sects.
If, indeed, the spirit of Kossuth's speech of March 3 had been still triumphant, compromises might have been found which would have hindered the claims of the Serbs from provoking actual war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compromises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
