1. Several obdurate facts/differences remain, preventing a compromise solution.

2. 10 Lord Macdonald's compromise solution avoided a constitutional showdown.

3. It is a compromise solution which leaves the best-execution pillar swaying precariously.

4. Offering a plan to end the 2006 Lebanon War, with a compromise solution for all parties.

5. The compromise solution was based on the Commission's proposal and took into account elements from the alternative proposal.

6. Both of these "clearance" procedures typically give rise to extensive negotiations between OMB staff and agency officials, and usually a compromise solution is reached.

7. A compromise solution was then agreed for a trial to be held at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, governed by Scots law, and President Mandela began negotiations with Colonel Gaddafi for the handover of the two accused (Megrahi and Fhimah) in April 1999.