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Sentences ending with compromise

Mr. Clay, though worn down and exhausted, was appealed to by members to renew his efforts at compromise. [7]
The second impulse was plainly the soundest, so I refrained, and proceeded to compromise. [5]
It was in vain that the Church herself had, from time to time, been inclined to compromise. [9]
With this appeal to first principles,--a position that could not be confuted on account of its vagueness (although it might probably be demonstrated that in society man has no such right), there was no way of agreement except by a compromise. [4]
I agreed to this compromise. [5]
Go back to the day of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
I will explain that whenever I want a thing, and Mrs. McWilliams wants another thing, and we decide upon the thing that Mrs. McWilliams wants--as we always do --she calls that a compromise. [5]
I conclude, then, that the public never demanded the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
When he did so, it ended in his inserting a provision substantially repealing the Missouri Compromise. [7]
They lived each side of the line, and the church was at a landing called Compromise. [5]

Short sentences using compromise

A year's compromise was arranged. [5]
A compromise was finally effected. [7]
Such was the compromise. [5]
I signed the compromise. [10]
The compromise was accepted. [5]
Compromise! [7]

Sentences containing compromise two or more times

But, gentlemen, it would take up all my time to meet all the little quibbling arguments of Judge Douglas to show that the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Compromise of 1850. [7]
To save the Union, compromise after compromise was made, but each one in the end was broken. [7]
It so happens that in that "popular sovereignty" with which Mr. Clay was identified, the Missouri Compromise was expressly reversed; and it was a little singular if Mr. Clay cast his mantle upon Judge Douglas on purpose to have that compromise repealed. [7]
I would only remind the Judge that while he is very valiantly fighting for the Nebraska Bill and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, it has been but a little while since he was the valiant advocate of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
My own opinion is, that a careful investigation of all the arguments to sustain the position that that Compromise was virtually repealed by the Compromise of 1850 would show that they are the merest fallacies. [7]
It is a grave question for lovers of the union whether the final destruction of the Missouri Compromise, and with it the spirit of all compromise, will or will not embolden and embitter each of these, and fatally increase the number of both. [7]
This would be compromise, but it would be compromise among the friends and not with the enemies of the Union. [7]

More example sentences with the word compromise in them

I cannot compromise your collective wisdom. [3]
Some men, mostly Whigs, who condemn the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, nevertheless hesitate to go for its restoration, lest they be thrown in company with the abolitionists. [7]
The arguments by which the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is sought to be justified are these: First. [7]
The scorn with which the rebels, after the compromise signed by the highest nobles, had called themselves Geusen, or Beggars, and endangered repose, would have been worthy of the severest punishment. [10]
But even if we fail to technically restore the compromise, it is still a great point to carry a popular vote in favor of the restoration. [7]
That in various ways the public had repudiated that compromise and demanded the repeal, and therefore should not now complain of it. [7]
I think, by way of compromise and convenience, I shall call him the Scarabee. [6]
The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
He said he was confident he could compromise for one hundred thousand dollars and recover the elephant. [5]
I say it was conceived in violence, because the destruction of the Missouri Compromise, under the circumstances, was nothing less than violence. [7]
It was a violation of both law and the sacred obligations of honor, to overthrow and trample under foot a solemn compromise, obtained by the fearful loss to freedom of one of the fairest of our Western domains. [7]
Finally, as is usual in life, a, compromise prevails. [4]
I am willing to relinquish the portrait, and compromise on the Chair. [5]
Secrecy was necessary to his present plans, and he could not compromise himself by over-eager curiosity. [6]
Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. [7]
I advise you to compromise this suit, Weill," he added. [9]
They were allowed to come in in that shape, because in another way it was paid for, considering that as a part of that system of measures called the Compromise of 1850, which finally included half-a-dozen acts. [7]
Now allow me to assure you that no word or intimation from that rebel army, or from any of the men controlling it, in relation to any peace compromise, has ever come to my knowledge or belief. [7]
The result of this is a compromise: the compromise is called Thaw. [4]
From now on there can be no compromise, no truce, no peace until they are exterminated. [9]
If anywhere, in the two pieces of the Compromise organizing the Territories of New Mexico and Utah. [7]
Go back to the troubles that led to the Compromise of 1850. [7]
Again, this was the trouble which was quieted by the Compromise of 1850, when it was settled "forever" as both the great political parties declared in their National Conventions. [7]
We thereby reinstate the spirit of concession and compromise, that spirit which has never failed us in past perils, and which may be safely trusted for all the future. [7]
The repeal of the sacred Missouri Compromise has installed the weapons of violence: the bludgeon, the incendiary torch, the death-dealing rifle, the bristling cannon--the weapons of kingcraft, of the inquisition, of ignorance, of barbarism, of oppression. [7]
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was by violence. [7]
They went for the Compromise of 1850; did I ever go against them? [7]
That was because the Compromise of 1850 had not repealed it. [7]
No sooner had the Compromise Acts of 1850 resulted in a temporary peace, which everybody said must be final and perpetual, than new outbreaks came. [7]
It was known that there had been sacrifices, efforts at extension, efforts at compromise, but the general public fancied that the Mavick fortune had a core too solid to be washed away by any storm. [4]
He also says that the Whig party in National Convention agreed to abide by and regard as a finality the Compromise of 1850. [7]
Now, I deny that the public ever demanded any such thing--ever repudiated the Missouri Compromise, ever commanded its repeal. [7]
But Douglas says that he is unalterably opposed to the repeal of those laws because, in his view, it is a compromise of the Constitution. [7]
But now let such things alone, and don't compromise your reputation as a scientist by such extravagances. [10]
Both of them, secretly, regarded the new scheme as a compromise, a yielding to the inevitable . [9]
Will not the same cause that produced agitation in 1820, when the Missouri Compromise was formed, that which produced the agitation upon the annexation of Texas, and at other times, work out the same results always? [7]
This is the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
To illustrate: Suppose refugees from the South and peace men of the North get together in convention, and frame and proclaim a compromise embracing a restoration of the Union. [7]
He only showed real interest at the last, when he asked, as it were in compromise, if his father would give him a sword. [11]
And I should put on my first campaign banner the words, 'No Compromise. [9]
Better one honest passion than a life of deception and miserable compromise. [11]
The two great parties, each in national convention, adopted resolutions declaring that the settlement made by the Compromise of 1850 was a finality that it would last forever. [7]
I close this part of the discussion on my part by asking him the question again, "Why, when we had peace under the Missouri Compromise, could you not have let it alone? [7]
When we established our independence, we did not own or claim the country to which this compromise applies. [7]
It was settled, our fathers hoped, by the Missouri Compromise, but it did not stay settled. [7]
The Missouri Compromise ought to be restored. [7]
If, by any or all these matters, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was commanded, why was not the command sooner obeyed? [7]
Iowa lay north of the line, and had been organized as a Territory and come into the Union as a State without disturbing that Compromise. [7]
All the evidences of public opinion at that day seemed to indicate that this compromise had been canonized in the hearts of the American people, as a sacred thing which no ruthless hand would ever be reckless enough to disturb. [7]
But the glow of Indian summer, that compromise, that after-thought of real summer, which brings her back for another good-bye ere she vanishes for ever--its sadness is of a different kind. [11]
When we have nothing to read and nothing to eat, it will be a favorable moment to offer a compromise. [6]
This Compromise did not repeal that one. [7]
If you are not for force nor yet for dissolution, there only remains some imaginable compromise. [7]
This bill contained no repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
I was a New Englander, and in my opinion this sort of partnership would compromise her, sooner or later. [5]
There'll be a nasty mess about the thing, for me and all of us, and why can't we compromise? [11]
One was no more expected than the other, and one was no more a compromise of the Constitution than the other. [7]
He left the Missouri Compromise unrepealed, and in his report accompanying the bill he told the world he did it on purpose. [7]
I have always maintained, so far as I was able, that there was nothing of the principle of the Nebraska Bill in the Compromise of 1850 at all,--nothing whatever. [7]
A compromise was made by his Majesty sending 1/60th of the standing army with the American, who gaily said he would join us, "horse, foot and cavalry," in the bridle- path. [11]
Remember what a long stride has been taken since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise! [7]
This provision of law is the "Missouri Compromise. [7]
I understand the Judge to be altogether right about that; I understand that part of the history of the country as stated by him to be correct I recollect that I, as a member of that party, acquiesced in that compromise. [7]
The almanac called it winter, distinctly enough, but the weather was a compromise between spring and summer. [5]
But next it is said that the compromises of '50, and the ratification of them by both political parties in '52, established a new principle which required the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
I repeat, there is nothing in the history of those times in favor of that matter being a compromise of the constitution. [7]
I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. [7]
All had acquiesced in the Compromise measures of 1850. [7]
The matter ended in a compromise, I submitted. [5]
He thought that if he challenged him without some fresh cause it might compromise the young Countess Rostova and so he wanted to meet Kuragin personally in order to find a fresh pretext for a duel. [2]
As to Nebraska, I regarded its character as being fixed by the Missouri Compromise for thirty years--as unalterably fixed as that of my own home in Illinois. [7]
The only compromise I can suggest is, that we shall go somewhere, and not learn anything about it. [4]
He was aware, however, of the discontent among the English members of the Opposition, and of the wish of the French members to find a good compromise. [11]
That was the half-conviction that when the nature of my proposed calamity should be reported to those superstitious people, it would have such an effect that they would want to compromise. [5]
They said they had seen enough of the stocks to know what a man's chance in them was, and they would never consent to enter them if they could compromise on a quick death by hanging. [5]
This is the ground he evidently wishes us to understand he is willing to compromise upon. [7]
Ours is a government of compromise. [4]
This made a good opening for a compromise, and the Major made a concession. [5]
Come, we must get up a compromise somehow. [5]
It had come from Beaton at the last moment, as a compromise, when the problem of the vulgar croppiness of cut leaves and the unpopularity of uncut leaves seemed to have no solution but suicide. [8]
I bring this forward merely to show the high estimate placed on the Missouri Compromise by all parties up to so late as the year 1849. [7]
He had voted for Mr. Bell, and later had presided at Crittenden Compromise meetings. [9]
It cannot compromise for less than one hundred cents on a dollar, and its debts are never outlawed. [5]
Where can you find the principle of the Nebraska Bill in that Compromise? [7]
With the plain fact before them that the average life of man is less than thirty-four years, few would be willing, if the choice were offered, to compromise on seventy. [4]
Euthymia kept an eye upon her, partly in the fear that over-excitement would produce some mental injury, and partly from anxiety lest she should compromise her womanly dignity in her desire to get at the truth of a very puzzling question. [6]
Is not this entirely conclusive that at all times we have held the Missouri Compromise as a sacred thing, even when against ourselves as well as when for us? [7]
Repeal the Missouri Compromise, repeal all compromises, repeal the Declaration of Independence, repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. [7]
But restore the compromise, and what then? [7]
This was to compromise with the robbers. [5]
What word of compromise was there about it? [7]
At length a compromise was made, in which, as in all compromises, both sides yielded something. [7]
But no paper compromise to which the controllers of Lee's army are not agreed can at all affect that army. [7]
This is the Compromise of 1850. [7]
They would not compromise as long as the cats held out. [5]
I offered to compromise and go to Paris. [5]
The stage company comes to a compromise, the woman dismounts, and we are off, away from the white houses, over the sandy road, out upon a hilly and not cheerful country. [4]
Again it is claimed that by the resolutions of the Illinois Legislature, passed in 1851, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was demanded. [7]
In what way can that compromise be used to keep Lee's army out of Pennsylvania? [7]
Why does everybody call them a compromise? [7]

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