give-and-take

How To Use give-and-take In A Sentence

• Open theism has found some favor with Pentecostals who view it in terms of a spirited give-and-take with God.
• The U.S. may be encouraged by allies and commentators again, at the point that sanctions are judged to be ineffective (or if the U.N. Security Council can't even agree on sanctions), to talk directly with the Iranians, but talking to the Iranians will still mean negotiating give-and-take (and negotiating with a strengthened Iran that has either proven unsusceptible to sanctions, or proven that the world is not united against it). Hooman Majd: Why We Are Going To Go To War
• Martin Wolf of the Financial Times once told me that the self-interested, strategic economic behaviors of other major economic stakeholders in the international system required a "patsy" -- someone who would believe in the "just-in-time" security of give-and-take trade and give-and-take finance and jobs, even when its competitors didn't. Steve Clemons: Eva Peron Wins: The Pretension of a 'Savings Lottery'
• This give-and-take using ideas provides emerging concepts with multiple experiential reference points.
• In the same way that the Supreme Court benefits from the give-and-take of circuit splits, circuit courts are better able to appreciate the need for them to issue a precedential opinion when the district courts are in open disagreement. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
• An out-of-court settlement cannot be one-sided; it must be based on parity, equity and symmetry, on the principle of give-and-take by both parties.
• They can see our legislative process is full of give-and-take, that there is ample debate.
• Heyward said that Schieffer's folksy give-and-take with the network's correspondents offered a hint of what CBS would ultimately unveil.
• The chart in Figure 1 shows you a rough idea of the give-and-take relationship between manageability and speed versus the number of functions you use.
• These appeals persuade not through the give-and-take of argument and debate, but through the manipulation of symbols and of our most basic human emotions.