You certainly haven't even begun to prepare your people, in Arabic, for the historic compromises such a deal would require.

He would later try to include the Communist Party as well, with a deal called the historic compromise.

The Act, a historic compromise between the consumer electronics and music industries, became effective immediately.

A historic compromise will not be on the cards.

It would be a historic compromise, a nuanced strategy of magnificent precision.

To reach a lasting peace, all three sides would have to make historic compromises involving their basic principles.

The violence, he said, could bring home the potential "costs of the failure of the peace process" and, ultimately, result in a "historic compromise."

He also did not want to antogonize the Christian Democrats, looking for a historic compromise.

But an historic compromise remains a long way off.

But only a major crisis or a grand historic compromise can bring this about.