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Then, in the middle of the 19 th century, China suffered at the hands of European imperial powers, which gained technological and industrial superiority over China, using this to force trading concessions from the Ching Dynasty.

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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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