I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an uneasy compromise
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The result was an uneasy compromise which no-one liked.
betray/compromise your principles (= do something that is against your principles )
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I knew I could lie to help him, but it would be betraying my principles.
reach an agreement/compromise/settlement (= decide on an arrangement that is acceptable to both groups )
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Substantial progress was made toward reaching an agreement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acceptable
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So averaging two adjacent lines, then using the averaged line twice, is an acceptable compromise .
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A federation can be an acceptable compromise when strong peripheral governments create a central government.
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An often acceptable compromise is local manufacture or assembly by a multinational company.
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The model will be used to explore these energy strategies which might form the basis of acceptable compromises .
good
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A moderately wide tail provides the best compromise for all conditions and this is what we find on most boards under 3.30m.
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I had always been good at compromise , working effectively in the mainstream.
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The best compromise is the partially open backed cabinet, similar to the Mesa Boogie 2x12 and 4x12 design.
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Quality - this should represent the best compromise between the wishes of the customer and the limitations of production.
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Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar.
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This solution represents the best compromise between information from each of the knowledge sources.
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The optimum polymer concentration therefore that would yield the best compromise between total glucose availability and low osmolality remains to be determined.
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The best compromise is to disguise surface-run cables with paint, and chase them in when you next redecorate.
political
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The government eventually adopted a political compromise .
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We acknowledge that political compromise may indeed explain the typical process surrounding the implementation of major change in most organizations.
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By September, Ambassador Habib produced a political compromise .
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The Minnesota bill, a political compromise , is only a pilot program.
possible
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Raybestos ruled out the possible compromise of a temporary permission to dump asbestos at the site.
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There are some possible compromises , like centralization with selective local overriding, and Guide follows this approach.
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But later the deputies set the stage for possible compromise by agreeing to debate a referendum after all.
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I have already worked to get the best possible compromise for residents regarding the development of Lucy's North Site.
reasonable
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I prefer achieving a reasonable compromise 8b.
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I strongly urge him to do so, if he can reach a sensible and reasonable compromise .
uneasy
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Five years on, they have reached an uneasy compromise of separate stages, each with its own cast of characters.
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Gordon explained that I would be permitted to remain under a set of conditions that obviously represented an uneasy compromise .
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The result was the uneasy compromise between deterrent and retributive aims that characterised neoclassicism.
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Instead of adopting one or other of these policies, they have tried to hide their difference beneath an uneasy and evasive compromise .
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The result was an uneasy compromise , in which for some meetings there would be a chairperson, in others not.
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Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536.
■ NOUN
candidate
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An undistinguished Senator from Ohio, he had been nominated as a compromise candidate at the Republican convention.
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I know that competitions are often won by compromise candidates , the pianists everyone on the jury can agree upon.
formula
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The convention ignored Morris and accepted the compromise formula .
plan
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George W.. Bush, who sat through most of the sessions where the compromise plans were hammered out.
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Thompson said he expected the governors to rally behind a compromise plan on welfare and education and training grants Tuesday.
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The compromise plan would require states to spend 75 percent of what they are contributing now for the program.
position
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Thus, it stands in an interim, compromise position along the road to social transformation.
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And this means that the easy compromise position is unavailable.
solution
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The compromise solution is therefore for management to subscribe a nominal number of shares in Newco early in the proceedings.
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The compromise solution in Berlin did not lead to a permanent end to tension.
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Retirement at 63 is the obvious compromise solution .
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This device might provide the basis of a compromise solution .
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It is a compromise solution which leaves the best-execution pillar swaying precariously.
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These are compromise solutions from a technological viewpoint.
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By this means the usual order of events led toward a compromise solution eventually being reached.
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Lord Macdonald's compromise solution avoided a constitutional showdown.
■ VERB
accept
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Indeed de Gaulle's own negotiator advised the General to accept a compromise .
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The convention ignored Morris and accepted the compromise formula.
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Many of these were accepted during compromise negotiations, resulting in tighter regulations than originally proposed.
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For a whole year, to avoid disagreements, our Assembly has accepted every kind of compromise .
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The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise .
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The regents voted unanimously to accept a compromise plan delaying the end of affirmative action until spring 1998.
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Age-old enemies have accepted that compromise is the only peaceful way forward.
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The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers.
achieve
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Constraints of finance, manpower and time all conspire to limit what may be achieved , and compromises are inevitable.
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I prefer achieving a reasonable compromise 8b.
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We could achieve this compromise in a Solomonic way.
agree
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The band realised such novelties would help Red Rhino sell more records, so agreed to the slight compromise .
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Republicans agreed to compromises that got the bill signed into law.
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On May 29 it was reported that the two sides had agreed a compromise , to allow the talks to proceed.
arrive
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He finally arrived at a compromise with her, which was that he could have three independent, non-civil servant, advisers.
find
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This improves the flow of gases, but also increases noise, so the firm must find a compromise .
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By May, they had found a new compromise text.
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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Did opposing views find compromise in final report?
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There John Major will try to find a compromise between saving money and saving his majority.
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The Savoyard rulers never managed to find a satisfactory compromise between these different demands.
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At a 12-hour meeting that ended early on March 21st, they found a compromise .
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Eventually we have to find a compromise .
involve
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It may involve compromises , for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved.
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Furthermore, science is not supposed to involve the kinds of compromises on political and financial grounds that this controversy has involved.
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So egg production involves a neat compromise .
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Over time, coexistence was inevitable, involving compromise and limited mutual tolerance.
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We are satisfied that the activity of digging out and shooting a fox involves a serious compromise of its welfare.
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Sampling procedures, then, necessarily involve a series of compromises .
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Because it is unresolved it hints at the tactics involved before a compromise is reached.
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The evolution of parasitic relationships involves countless compromises and adjustments between the two partners.
make
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The building oozed a melancholy yet defiant air, cornered by an unforgiving landscape with which it refused to make any compromises .
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Since both were only children, perhaps neither knew how to make compromises , and there were inevitable personality conflicts.
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She owed it to her daughter to make this compromise .
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If anything, they are more likely to be understated because loot }. parents frequently make job compromises .
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Nigel, by opting out of the computer course, had already made his compromise with ambitious dreams.
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They made up this muddled compromise out of all of them.
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It seems the onus is still very much on women to make the compromise , if needed, in a relationship.
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At night, I lie sleepless and worry that I have made too many compromises .
offer
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The exception may nevertheless be worthwhile making to see what the landlord will offer as a compromise .
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But Mr Bush's offered compromise is an important first step.
propose
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Vegan Action, which promotes a completely vegetarian lifestyle, proposed a compromise .
reach
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As for smoking, we reached a compromise .
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Within a few months, they made the triumphant proclamation that they had reached a compromise all sides could live with.
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Eventually I reach the same old compromise .
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Republicans said they see little chance of reaching a compromise this year.
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It's hoping to meet the shopkeepers and reach a compromise .
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How hard after all these decades to reach out and compromise .
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Luckily the timely intervention of Trevor Proby's left boot into my right ear quickened everyone's resolve to reach a compromise .
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Failure to reach compromises on spending in 1995 and 1996 triggered two partial government shutdowns.
reject
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Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century.
represent
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Quality - this should represent the best compromise between the wishes of the customer and the limitations of production.
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A score somewhere in between represents an accommodation or compromise between both points of view.
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This solution represents the best compromise between information from each of the knowledge sources.
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Gordon explained that I would be permitted to remain under a set of conditions that obviously represented an uneasy compromise .
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Birds that waddle, like the penguin, represent another compromise .
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We call this a radical pluralist position, since it represents a compromise between Marxism and the pluralist tradition in sociology.
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The installations in our streets usually represent the best compromise that can be found.
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But it represents a compromise between opposing or contradictory interests not untypical of media policy.
require
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Flattening out the convoluted surface of the brain requires more compromises than that.
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Reciprocity, the favorite word of Netanyahu, requires consultation and compromise on both sides, not unilateral moves by either.
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Deciding on a speed has always required a compromise between sound quality and playing time.
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Marriage frequently requires heroic compromise on the part of one or both spouses.
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It also requires trade-offs and compromises , just as any collective action does.
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Yet any big move by the reborn Republican governor will require a compromise with Democratic legislators.
seek
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Ministers are seeking a compromise that would reassure rebel peers who rejected a bill abolishing the clause last week.
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His rise to power in Washington is based primarily on his ability to seek compromise to get things done.
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Villa-Flotilla is yachting for novices, for families seeking a compromise , or for friends who like variety.
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The manifesto was many things to many artists and tended to seek a compromise among the various concepts of the fourth dimension.
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But a day after the blow-up, the committee assigned to seek a compromise won a three-month reprieve.
strike
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Although he pathetically offered me an apology, I remained adamant until we struck a compromise .
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The LutheranCatholic document strikes a compromise .
suggest
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So it suggests a compromise which asks that meat from religious slaughter, where animals are not stunned, should be labelled.
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Mr Olasky, the pragmatist leader, suggests a compromise .
try
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Furniture retailer Conroys is trying to engineer a compromise .
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Yaki had tried to broker a compromise earlier this year to keep the initiative off the ballot.
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He tried to find a compromise that would satisfy his artistic urge and quieten his conscience.
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There John Major will try to find a compromise between saving money and saving his majority.
work
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No single approach will work alone and compromises must be made.
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The main function of civil service participation in the work of the Cabinet and its committees is to work out interdepartmental compromises .
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Legislators worked out a compromise in the Department of Human Services' spending bill.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in sb's vocabulary
arrive at a decision/solution/compromise etc
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He arrived at a decision, threw the cigarette away, and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages.
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He finally arrived at a compromise with her, which was that he could have three independent, non-civil servant, advisers.
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However, the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution.
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In such a case, some form of conflict resolution must be adopted to arrive at a solution.
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My colleagues and I, after much consideration have arrived at a decision.
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Now, she thought, now we shall get things done, sort things out, arrive at a solution.
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They spent time arriving at a decision on the correct software.
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Using committees internally to overcome restrictions on information and thereby arrive at a decision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After several hours of discussions, they managed to reach a compromise .
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Decisions came only after a long process of compromise .
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Officials hope to find a compromise between Britain and other EU members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But whether the compromise bolsters the prospects for permanent peace in Bosnia is another story.
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The compromise provides aid for children and gives counties the option of providing parents with employment or other services.
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The centre stands for compromise between president and parliament - and compromise no longer seems a solution to their bitter war.
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The defence minister, General Pavel Grachev, called for a compromise and promised that the army would stay out of the dispute.
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There is a necessary compromise which can only be arrived at in the context of a particular system.
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Whipped by bad fortune, surrendering to the inexorable gravity of downward-sliding consequences, Edna enforced home order without compromise .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seriously
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We are satisfied that this experience seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.
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With two races completed and zero points on the board, his title hopes are already seriously compromised .
■ NOUN
independence
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This means no donations or sponsorship can be accepted that would compromise Amnesty's overall independence or impartiality.
integrity
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Your Toyota is a sophisticated piece of machinery; to fit non-genuine parts is to compromise its design integrity .
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If the server were compromised , the integrity of the whole system would fail.
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Can he lend his name to the petition without compromising his professional integrity ?
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This upgrade places Dreamweaver firmly back in the middle ground without compromising the professional integrity of previous releases.
issue
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In the end we compromised and deferred the issue for later discussion between us.
position
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Lee's new political role was said to compromise his position as senior member in liaising between Legco and the government.
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That, however, could be the most compromising position he could put himself into.
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Conspiracy theorists might guess that Brown has Polaroids of Wilson in a compromising position .
principle
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But this compromises the once-sacrosanct principle that used to shield doctor-patient communications from public view.
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Conviction to the point of resignation Always be prepared to resign Organizations fail because managers compromise their principles .
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What he won't accept are decisions which compromise his principles: principles of openness, honesty and commitment amongst others.
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We say that the state as a whole does wrong in accepting an internal compromise because it then compromises its principles .
safety
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This meant that the rotor could be used in heavy winds and should not compromise the ship's safety .
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I would be compromising her safety and well-being with integration.
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For our part, we were not prepared to compromise on standards of safety and quality.
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Those farmers who compromise on safety must be hit hard, where it hurts - in the pocket.
standard
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We are committed to widening opportunities without compromising academic standards .
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The search is usually hard enough in itself but many students will also have to compromise their standards .
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For our part, we were not prepared to compromise on standards of safety and quality.
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Not wishing to compromise my own standards , I left this firm very quickly.
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Never allow frenzied phone calls from estate agents or other practitioners to compromise professional standards .
system
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If the compromised system is on a backbone network, intruders can monitor any transit traffic traversing between nodes on that network.
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In Houston, people with compromised immune systems are being warned about the fruit.
willingness
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Britain's willingness to compromise had been far less marked.
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Even when differences exist, the key is willingness to compromise .
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While Curzon showed him every courtesy, Kitchener treated his willingness to compromise as weakness.
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A looser structure, a willingness to compromise the party's programme and dilute its composition, would have been fatal.
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Their willingness to compromise their reproductive purity is a great help in understanding what keeps the various kinds apart.
■ VERB
refuse
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For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise .
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Then, in a showdown with Clinton last winter, Congress refused to compromise over its seven-year plan to balance the budget.
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By refusing to compromise , Perry had little chance of stardom, so he settled on becoming a minor legend instead.
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Archbishop Perier, ever cautious, refused to compromise on the point.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the word) failure/guilt/compromise etc is not in sb's vocabulary
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Critics accused the mayor of compromising too easily.
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Stalin refused to compromise on any of his demands.
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The employers will have to be ready to compromise if they want to avoid a strike.
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The patient's immune system has been compromised by cancer treatments.
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The President might be willing to compromise on defense spending.
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They compromised by alternating days on which each chose the activity.
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We need to increase profits without compromising employees' safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any attempt to impose some sort of external watchdog that might apply a degree of accountability is rejected as compromising its secrecy.
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But this compromises the once-sacrosanct principle that used to shield doctor-patient communications from public view.
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Further, he contends that Shimomura was developing sophisticated programs to help secure the Internet, not compromise it.
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He is very much aware of public opinion, and he knows how to compromise in the interest of the nation.
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Sandra quickly compromised and accepted the new work schedule.