It was also the start of efforts to create a framework that would allow for some form of diplomatic compromise should the military solution fail altogether.

With a Hastur hostage, he had some leverage for diplomatic compromise with the Hasturs.

At the same time, however, the European powers hoped for a diplomatic compromise.

Dayton was a delicate diplomatic compromise forged at a time when rival armies had fought their way to rough territorial parity.

I doubt our job will be finished until the colonies reach some diplomatic compromise, and that could take a lot longer than six months.

You are a diplomatic compromise, your Highness, if I may say so?

The predictable effect was to transform what had been a painful and difficult search for workable diplomatic compromises into a competitive exercise in political posturing.

They will now be tried in the Netherlands under Scottish law, in a diplomatic compromise that satisfies all essential American and British requirements.

And Moscow's sharp cut in aid to Vietnam helped push the stubborn Hanoi leadership toward diplomatic compromise.

President Bush did not sound like a man searching for a diplomatic compromise last night at his press conference on Iraq.