Sentence examples for A begrudging acknowledgment from inspiring English sources

Though New Yorkers have long insisted that the only real bagels can be found in the five boroughs (with a begrudging acknowledgment of Montreal's skinnier, sweeter version), young bakers in the farthest corners of the world are making serious dough.

Or maybe a lack of maturity meant he misread the intense dislike as a back-handed compliment, a begrudging acknowledgment of the threat he posed to the All Blacks.

Reactions ranged from a begrudging acknowledgment from British officials that they got the consequences of Nato's military intervention in Libya wrong, to calls for another one.

After handing this Christmas gift to the anti-regulatory forces, SBA's Office of Advocacy owes the public something more than burying a begrudging acknowledgment of the report's weakness on an obscure webpage.

A begrudging sense of this being better than nothing.

Here, there was a begrudging acceptance of the new reality.

There was only a begrudging acquiescence.

There is a begrudging acceptance.

Yet most good politicians also possess a healthy, if begrudging, political respect for an opponent.

She was like an animal, he thought, as silent and begrudging as an owl.

I would not for a moment begrudge them the money if they were wizard stock pickers.