Word Finder - concede

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To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant

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He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.

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To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

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To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

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To yield or make concession.

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To have a goal or point scored against

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(of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.

They started to concede defeat in the war.

I'll happily concede that I never heard it all the way through.

One more thing she would concede to when they were alone, was selecting some furniture.

When will the agency concede that the number of native speakers is down?

Turkey was willing to concede the fullest local autonomy, but not to abandon its sovereign rights over the island.

In her style, as in what she writes about, we must concede to the artist what we deny to the autobiographer.

Will they concede in the second half?

It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

He decided to grudgingly concede the role of the director, but they still think the words speak for themselves.

They had to sacrifice some of their East Indian possessions and to concede to the English freedom of trade in the Eastern seas.

To concede that the master was the greater man and the greater statesman does not imply that Mazarin was but a foil to his predecessor.

It was his evident belief that by pursuing such tactics he could force the House of Commons to concede the legislation which he desired.

It was clear that the system with which the murdered minister's name had been associated stood all but universally condemned, and in the appointment of the conciliatory Prince Sviatopolk-Mirski as his successor the tsar himself seemed to concede the necessity for a change of policy.

The crown declined to concede these points, either of which would have wrecked the dual system as interpreted since 1867.

The problem here is how much ground can Buddhist cosmology concede to modern science before it ceases to be Buddhist?

His idea was to combine the more conservative elements of both sections in favour of a settlement which would concede the Southern view on two questions, the Northern view on two, and balance the fifth.

Nevertheless he faithfully obeyed his instructions, and, by means more or less violent or discreditable, forced the diet of 1768 to concede everything.

They could concede the triumphant achievement of science only with the proviso that it must be assumed to fall within the framework of their nominalism.

It always works in newspaper articles but on this occasion 6 by South is solid and all that happens is you concede the overtrick.

He was well aware that an aristocratic and Catholic assembly like the sejm would never concede so preposterous a demand.

You concede that some Christian scribes did alter the wording in front of them.

And it is best to concede that there has been no thoroughgoing analysis of the welfare effects of modern financial markets.

A great performance in the second half defensively from Kingsway, unlucky even to concede a goal.

The Clinton administration was forced to concede the particular battle of health care reform in order to focus on larger issues of the day.

All the while, however, the patents of the admiralty judge purported to confer on him a far ampler jurisdiction than the jealousy of the other courts would concede to him.

The conditions of peace were naturally humiliating for Valdemar,' though, ultimately, he contrived to render illusory many of the inordinate privileges he was obliged to concede.

Meeting with no opposition, he was received at Viterbo by Innocent, but refused the papal demand that he should concede to the church all the territories which, previous to 1197, had been in dispute between the Empire and the Papacy, consenting, however, not to claim supremacy over Sicily.

In arguments at the bar he was so fair to his opponent that he frequently appeared to concede away his client's case.

To refuse this claim would have meant the indefinite prolongation of the crisis; to concede it would have been to invite the peasantry of the whole empire to put forth similar demands on pain of a general rising.

These the duke had to concede, and to agree further to the appointment of a council to assist him in his administration.

The triumvirs were obliged to concede to him the islands in the western Mediterranean.

This claim Serbia was in no mood to concede, all the less so since her advance to the Adriatic had been forbidden b y the Great Powers.

But the primate contended very vigorously for the right to be tried before his peers, and since the king could get no subsidies from his parliament till he acknowledged the justice of this claim, he was forced to concede it.

Burgundy dared not concede so much, under pain of alienating all his more patriotic Murder of supporters.

In the autumn he had engaged himself to marry Henrietta Maria, the sister of the king of France, and had bound himself to grant the very conditions which he had declared to the Commons that he never would concede.

I will readily concede that my visceral disgust for what Gary Glitter was doing influences my views.

Rogers then put Bath under pressure, which caused the visiting side to concede a penalty in front of their own posts.

A neat sequence of link up play on the left midfield resulted in the Dutch having to concede a free kick 30 yards out.

During the early 1990s, under pressure from western aid donors, the Moi government was finally forced to concede to a multi-party democracy.

They concede that they have always had an aristocracy of blood.

Everton, wonderfully rugged and desperately unfortunate, may privately concede their chance has gone.

Vale were happy to scramble away or concede another corner as they were under the cosh.

I will also concede that the furniture tossing was par excellence.

For, they concede, the Church does after all bring in some kind of vague notion of God and a Supreme Being.

Yet to concede this claim and surrender without qualification the word " Catholic " to a connotation which is at best only universal in theory, is to beg several very weighty questions.

These the archbishop of Paris would only concede on condition that he would retract his oath to the civil constitution of the clergy, which he peremptorily refused to do.

A goal up for 86 minutes and rarely in danger, only to concede a stoppage time goal struck from all of 30 yards !

They concede that the Russian belly dancer who teaches the video workout, Neon, has excellent musculature and tone, but like many belly dancers has a "distinctive belly dancer pooch."

It was to obtain popular support for this policy and for the Bavarian claims on Baden that the crown prince pressed for a liberal constitution, the reluctance of Montgelas to concede it being the cause of his dismissal.

His tenure of office lasted two years, and was marked by the drafting of a temporary constitution which should give representative institutions to the Transvaal until such time as it should be safe to concede responsible government.