This is not a 'honorable compromise', but a very significant pay cut.

Calling this "an honorable compromise" after "difficult" debates, General Powell said the military chiefs "fully, fully support" it.

Military leaders today described the new policy on homosexuals in the military as an honorable compromise.

He was a master of consensus-building, cooperation, and honorable compromise.

If I later had to veto Republican budget bills, I wanted to do so after demonstrating a good-faith effort to make honorable compromises.

The Doctor initially manages to negotiate an honorable compromise with the colony's leader.

We can put people first and make a principled, honorable compromise.

Mr. Jennings said: "This is an honorable compromise.

Robert Livingston, the designated Speaker, pondered for days whether to lead the House toward an honorable compromise around a censure resolution.

"We have an overall plan now which represents an honorable compromise for all sides," he said tonight.