1.   A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.

2.   Although he has resisted American demands, there have been reports that various compromises were being considered.

3.   But both sides should consider a compromise that might lead to a Pakistani role in the talks some time after they have gotten under way.

4.   Federal officials said the administration was considering several compromises.

5.   In the course of that review, the FTC considered two compromises.

6.   Mason said he, Alton Maddox and the lawyer for the Rev. Al Sharpton declined to consider any compromise.

7.   Several of these members are likely to be selected for the House-Senate conference committee that will consider the compromise, the aides said.

8.   The Hawaii solons, in a tense conference just before the deadline, considered a compromise.

9.   The officers told him that this was unthinkable and asked him to consider a compromise and take it before the executive board.

10.   The president also is considering compromises that would allow research on existing stem cells but would not allow new cells to be taken from embryos.