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- noun Plural form of
compromiser .
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Examples
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More unsettling for the compromisers was the position of China itself.
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More generally, the issue is this: Strict Progressives regard MoveOn and DFA as "compromisers" who are too willing to work within the corrupt Democratic Party.
Single-payer versus a strong public option: division within the progressive movement 2009
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Peter had listened to "Shorty's" railings at the "compromisers" and the "political traders," and had thought him one of the most dangerous men in American City.
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From the start of the Great Depression, GOP compromisers occasionally slowed the pace of federal growth, but never stopped the long-term trend; that's why federal spending today represents 25% of GDP versus a little more than 4% in 1931.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid named three Democratic senators who are considered neither ideological purists nor eager compromisers to a "super committee" charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade.
Reid Names First Debt-Panel Picks Laura Meckler 2011
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Rather, the problem is that with the purging of compromisers, the process of governing will come to complete rather than partial gridlock.
Mel Martinez Takes On DeMint: 'He Defines Success Differently Than I Would' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Rather, the problem is that with the purging of compromisers, the process of governing will come to complete rather than partial gridlock.
Mel Martinez Takes On DeMint: 'He Defines Success Differently Than I Would' Sam Stein 2010
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Meanwhile, Democratic "compromisers" in the past three years managed to accelerate federal spending, pass an $800 billion stimulus package and engineer partial government takeovers of the health-care (ObamaCare) and financial-services (Dodd-Frank) sectors.
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Rather, the problem is that with the purging of compromisers, the process of governing will come to complete rather than partial gridlock.
Mel Martinez Takes On DeMint: 'He Defines Success Differently Than I Would' Sam Stein 2010
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The three Democrats are considered neither ideological purists nor eager compromisers.
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