Sentences with phrase «accepted a compromise position»
The de Blasio administration and the Police Department had strongly urged the Council to accept a compromise position, according to the people at the meeting.
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I guess... I guess I'm just ready to compromise, to «accept», for lack of a better word, positions that I would disagree with, even find offensive.
As a traditionally minded Anglo - Catholic, I must say that the Catholic Church's strange new position on capital punishment is one major reason why I would find accepting Roman Catholicism, at best, a compromise with a defective faith.
Such a position allows for no compromise or willingness to accept the validity of other spiritual traditions.
We accept a progressive position but make allowances for congregations or conferences that differ, knowing that we will lose some people who will be against any compromise.
The more obvious expressions of the compromise have been frequent but perhaps less dangerous than the prevailing one by means of which Christianity appeared to remain true to itself while accepting the anthropocentric position.
«With the deep pockets of the teachers unions potentially compromised, maybe accepting underperforming schools and iron - clad work rules in return for campaign cash doesn't have to be the default position anymore,» Bradford says.