Senator Specter has shaped an unsatisfactory compromise: a program that would not build in a path to citizenship.

Galileo never took Tycho's system seriously, as can be seen in his correspondence, regarding it as an inadequate and physically unsatisfactory compromise.

The rating is an unsatisfactory compromise for the rater.

It involves unsatisfactory compromises, where there are no clear winners or losers.

The Declaration was generally viewed as a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise between the widely differing wishes of various states.

The result that appears below is thus a rather unsatisfactory compromise.

All features were standard, the provision of alternatives being believed to lead to an unsatisfactory compromise.

The issues are too important for us to deal with by means of fuzzy definitions or unsatisfactory compromises.

Although the decision, which has dragged on for some time, is an unsatisfactory compromise, it is the lesser of two evils.

Don't expect that call to go out soon, since neither side could hope for ultimate victory in that forum, only temporary and unsatisfactory compromise.