compromise

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Compromise is likely to be needed, on both salary - Maguire is one of United's highest-paid players and co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is determined to drive costs down - and maybe contract length.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

With federal troop withdrawal as part of the Compromise of 1877 to make Rutherford Hayes president, Reconstruction-era optimism ended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

Then came the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which struck down the Missouri Compromise and denied Congress the right to prohibit slavery in the nation’s territories.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2024

Compromise and coalition-building would be mandatory, rather than detested and punished.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2023

Martin was perhaps the first public advocate of the “covenant with death” interpretation of the Constitution, as well as the first former delegate to denounce the Sectional Compromise as a corrupt bargain.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis