Though Republican and anti-communist, Nixon and Kissinger made pragmatic accommodation with dictators and sought peace through negotiations, diplomacy, and arms control.

Surely there is space for a pragmatic accommodation.

So Cameron could seek this seat at future meetings in exchange for supporting, rather than hindering, pragmatic accommodation on the access of the new group to EU institutions.

The new approach at Apple appears to be one of pragmatic accommodation.

Ideologically eclectic, not to say confounding, the painting has much to say about the balance of resistance and pragmatic accommodation that defined Mouride politics even in Bamba's day.

This may not be Rockefeller Center, but it is one of the city's treasures, a building born of both a pragmatic accommodation to a tight piece of land and a romantic dream.

The Microsoft-Netscape collaboration is a pragmatic accommodation in response to growing public concerns about privacy on line - worries that threaten to slow the growth of Internet commerce and possibly lead to Government regulation.

The Jesuits' pragmatic accommodation with Confucianism was later to lead to conflict with the Dominican friars, who came to Beijing from the Philippines in the middle of the century.

Yet ultimately, the benefits to both sides of the sometimes bumpy "Wintel" partnership led them back to a pragmatic accommodation.

Worldcom's new-found concern for residential customers, analysts say, is mainly a pragmatic accommodation, a requirement for regulatory approval for its merger.