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Conceding in sentence

31 examples of Conceding in a sentence

In fact, this is the only war in American history in which the government negotiated a peace by conceding everything demanded by the enemy.
By the very act of trying to reason us into your position, you're conceding reason's potency.
A few years later, she resurfaces, conceding that she took a certain amount of dramatic licence but willing to cooperate with a film-maker to prove the substance of her allegations.
Why, then, do Latin American economists seem to share a cautious – even pessimistic – mood about future growth and convergence in the region, whereas most Asian economists, while conceding that further structural reforms are needed, believe strongly that Asia will continue to converge rather rapidly?
We do not advocate conceding to terrorists’ demands; rather, we recommend that foreign policy be smarter and more inspirational.
In conceding the premise that the deal was somehow incomplete, supporters and detractors alike set it up to fail.
So, even though central banks aren’t willing to give up on their formal 2% inflation target, they are willing to prolong the timeline for achieving it, as they have already done time and again, effectively conceding that inflation may stay low for longer.
Indeed, non-violence could only work against opponents vulnerable to a loss of moral authority – that is, governments responsive to domestic and international public opinion, and thus capable of being shamed into conceding defeat.
The British expropriation of other peoples’ patrimony, from the Parthenon Marbles to the Kohinoor diamond, is a particular point of contention, as conceding any one item could, the British fear, open a Pandora’s box of problems.
By demanding the release of more than 1,000 prisoners in exchange for one soldier, Hamas is conceding the stark military reality of this imbalance: thousands of their prisoners, fighting with knives, explosive belts, and primitive rockets, are worth only one Israeli soldier.
Opinion in the City of London tends to favor a middle way, which would allow the UK to cling to the benefits of the single market, without conceding unified regulation.
But leadership is not about conceding to short-terms politics.
Unfortunately, that approach would be akin to conceding defeat; it would amount to an acknowledgement by the government that boosting growth by expanding exports is impossible.
These journalists’ self-interested prejudice against a medium in which they are not the gatekeepers prevents them from conceding that Assange is a publisher, rather than some sort of hybrid terrorist blogger.
The Times later apologized, conceding that it was not the politicians who were targeted in Palin’s campaign, but their electoral districts.
They are comfortable with protracted uncertainty about who is right even in bitter debates, conceding gaps in their knowledge and granting legitimacy to opposing views.
She has also opposed conceding “market-economy status” to China, because it would make it harder to bring anti-dumping cases against the country.
By conceding at the right time on an issue of no importance, Draghi achieved an enormous breakthrough that really mattered to the ECB.
But now it, too, is promising to draw the necessary lessons from the Japanese experience and upgrade its safety procedures, including a reassessment of the potential effects of natural disasters on nuclear-plant operations, conceding that the occurrence of more than one natural disaster simultaneously had not been considered previously.
But the IMF also hinted at a willingness to be flexible, conceding that, because the SDR is fundamentally a reserve asset, the currencies that underpin it need only to be available in “sufficiently liquid and deep markets.”
He disputes the number of Muslims killed in Srebrenica, conceding only that “a grave atrocity” happened.
In time, he made people forget that he had opposed Tunku Abdul Rahman for not being sufficiently "Malay" and for conceding too much to the Chinese and Indian coalition partners in Tunku's early post-independence governments.
After conceding that “you cannot have concrete proof of interference in ICT, unless you are lucky enough to find the needle in the haystack,” the author simply asserts that “you don’t take the risk of putting your security in the hands of a potential adversary.”
Aron preferred demonizing fellow intellectuals as alarmists than conceding that the Cold War might eventuate in a nuclear holocaust.
China’s leaders need to be persuaded that conceding this point does not imply letting Taiwan move towards de jure independence.
In the early 1990s, Yeltsin concluded bilateral agreements with those republics, conceding extensive autonomy to Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.
Instead of conceding that an effective pandemic response requires infringing freedom of expression and privacy rights, companies must recognize that civil liberties are critical enablers of global health, and act accordingly – even when governments don’t.
Particularly from a southern member-state perspective, and with a horrific second wave of COVID-19 bearing down on Europe, conceding the conditionality provision seems like the least-bad option.
But one fact must be acknowledged: Gandhian nonviolent civil disobedience works only against opponents vulnerable to a loss of moral authority – a government responsive to domestic and international public opinion and capable of being shamed into conceding defeat.
We wound up conceding that all expressed beliefs have equal value.