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By withdrawing Canada from the Kyoto Protocol and largely rejecting the issue’s significance (before finally offering limited concessions to reduce the country’s carbon footprint), he diminished Canada’s standing on one of the premier global issues of our time.

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The UAW, who represented the workers, said they would offer unprecedented concessions, sacrifices to just keep those jobs in Greenville.

I understood her to be saying that concessions confer only a little humanity where full humanity is due; that crumbs are not the same as a place at the table.

But again, consider this: the Civil Rights Movement in the United States navigated a minefield of political dangers, faced repression and overcame, won major policy concessions, navigated and innovated through risks.

The only concessions is that we did not pay to see it at the movies as we rented this on DVD from the video store.

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