1.   The town has struck a Faustian bargain, they contend -- trading something of its small-town soul for success.

2.   Although their long identification with the Democratic Party has allowed some black leaders to emerge, it has been, for the most part, a Faustian bargain.

3.   An ardent capitalist, Chubais has made a sort of Faustian bargain with the powerful Russian banking and financial community to push ahead with privatization and other market reforms.

4.   An increasing number of people are asking whether their newfound prosperity and secularism represent a Faustian bargain.

5.   An increasing number of people are asking whether their newfound prosperity and secularism is a Faustian bargain.

6.   At best, it will be a Faustian bargain.

7.   According to Pollock lore, his relationship with the camera was a Faustian bargain.

8.   But to us, these new grills are the very definition of a culinary Faustian bargain.

9.   Faustian bargains can be as seductive or poignant as they are risky.

10.   In a Faustian bargain, they are promised fame and fortune in return for the public viewing their intimacies.