This meant making trade offs.

Recently, some concessions were made by the government. They don't have a choice , she points out.

Loneliness is a heavy burden, but I'd rather be alone... than make compromises.

Such flexibility was not easy to offer when domestic legislation was already in force, and for that reason, the flexibility and the concessions had to be mentioned particularly.

But, for Khamenei, nuclear concessions might also undermine his monopoly over domestic politics.

The only exceptions to this were Tobago, St. Lucia, Seychelles and Mauritius.

We will always remember the difficult concessions they made in order to reach agreement.

I guess you cannot say the Jewish people have not accepted some painful compromises already.

The Millennium Development Goals are achievable, so long as we all make efforts and concessions.

And the administration agreed to give waivers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent, and they could keep the waivers only if they did increase employment.

Can he make sufficient concessions on borders and Jerusalem? Similar doubts apply to Abbas.

In addition, the world didn t reward Israel for making concessions and taking risks.

The Swedish government felt that it was in no position to openly contest Germany, and therefore made some concessions.

Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong to be returned to China.

The compromises necessary for peace are likely to lead to a stark political confrontation in Israel as well.

Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firmness rather than concessions.

Making matters worse, concessions on either side appear to leave no impression on the other. On the contrary, they are usually met with lethal provocations that push any agreement even further away.

And, if a debt crisis is near, exceptions will be found, waivers will be issued, and buyers for the additional debt will be lined up.

Mao and Deng could do this because both provided China with strong leadership.

The era when China made all the compromises in the relationship has passed.

In other words, achieving a lasting peace deal will require compromises from both sides the kind of compromises that Hamas has long resisted. For its part, the international community must embrace Hamas s involvement in the pursuit of a peaceful settlement of the Palestine Israel conflict.

Mutual concessions can be crafted that ensure negligible political fallout for both leaders.

Voters will learn to compromise, replacing tailor made niche parties with a couple of solid off the shelf options.

The reality is that Europe does manage to move ahead, but step by step through mutual compromise.

Now, I agree that you have to yeah, there are certain concessions and, you know, if you use a slide projector, you're not able to have the bad type swing in from the back or the side, or up or down, but maybe that's an O.K. trade off, to trade that off for a focus.

With a good showing, they could have then compelled Morsi s Muslim Brotherhood to accept the necessary compromises.

There will be no possibility of removing the deadlock if a minimum of concessions which are mutually acceptable to all parties are not generated.

These compromises state that nothing in the treaties will affect Irish prerogatives on abortion, military neutrality, and taxation.

The main differences between the leading Israeli parties are more atmospheric than real, mainly concerning how much to concede and how much to demand.

In this way, the terrorists oppose the purity and authenticity of their arguments to the compromises presumably forced upon religious establishments.

Treaties signed in 1947 and 1948 with the Soviet Union included obligations and restraints on Finland, as well as territorial concessions.

Since then, some of those compromises have been amended and the men in office have sometimes been too strong or too weak.

But these trade offs must be made if Europe s military is to meet the Continent s security needs.

This would also require marginal improvements in concessions by the major developing countries, and by the US and the European Union on services.

But wise leaders are necessarily pragmatic, because messy reality demands compromise and accommodation.

Failure to pursue further dialogue and reconciliation would involve a higher price for the parties concerned than would the compromises necessary for reaching national consensus through peaceful means.

What experience is available on balancing trade offs between different groups of stakeholders and what are the lessons to be learned?

One hopes that the Iranian government s announcement to its own people reads roughly the same, in reverse, focusing on the important concessions that Iranian negotiators have won.

Whatever balance of concessions has been achieved would unravel if we were to try to keep one set and let go of another.

Here Hamas members are simply reiterating Arafat s views, which will continue to limit the concessions any new leader can make.

One could argue that concessions on this front would simply acknowledge attitudinal and behavioral reality and allow the church to move on.

Cowardly compromise and political alibis as so often in history defeated a principled position.

Watered down by the compromises without which liberal democracies cannot thrive, socialism did a great deal of good in Western Europe.

Just before last year's trade talks in Cancun, the US made some concessions, so that it was no longer the only holdout.

Mr. Gal (Mongolia) said that despite many concessions made by all parties, the gap between positions had been too wide to be bridged.