If you absolutely can't keep your hands out of the mix, strike a compromise.

The two sides could strike a compromise based on a lump sum payment, rather than a figure based on a percentage of each banker's package.

However, this new equipment increases the weight burden on the soldier, who then has to strike a compromise between the extra equipment and mobility.

Now he has struck a compromise deal with his conscience and gone ahead with a sanitised version.

This could mean striking a compromise over the funding structure or, more easily, reducing its 75% acceptance threshold to 50.1%.