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accommodationist

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ac·com·mo·da·tion·ist  (-km-dsh-nst)
n.
One that compromises with or adapts to the viewpoint of the opposition: a factional split between the hard-liners and the accomodationists.
ac·commo·dation·ist adj.
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Opposed to (or rather, seemingly opposed to) these and other voices of the war chorus are the accommodationists, all of whom seem to be pretty much in general agreement that the solution to the Israel-Lebanon-Hamas-Hezbollah-Syria-Iran crisis must be an international one, involving a parley among all of the above-mentioned parties plus the United States, the UN, the EU, Russia, and China.
Escalating war: the dilemma of false alternatives--and why Americans ... by Jasper, William F. / The New American
They would argue instead for an accommodationist position allowing for government acknowledgement, endorsement, and support of religion on a nonpreferential basis as consistent with the Baptist tradition.
Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture by Holcomb, J. David / Baptist History and Heritage
I don't think that those of us who fear the commodification of human life would be accommodationist to support federal and international funding of stem-cell research, since this would ensure a degree of monitoring.
The nuclear option by Pasinski, David E. / Commonweal
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