Sentence examples for Concede from inspiring English sources

I will be the first to concede that Dreiser does not now look anything like their equal.

Pringle said that left the UK government fighting to protect a principle that Salmond's team was already ready to concede: "They made their one red line the binary referendum so in that sense they did kind of … they played into our hands in terms of making a presentation like that".

M'Bolhi tips the ball over the bar to concede the corner.

In the end I have to concede that Lynton Crosby and the young Republicans who came to help David Cameron's campaign know more about what makes Britain tick than I do.

Townsend was tormenting Basanta down the right but, in the end, it was the Fiorentina defender who had the last laugh, equalising nine minutes before half-time with a goal that, from Tottenham's perspective, was a hugely soft one to concede.

Though they then tend to concede they're not entirely clear what that agenda is.

Crisco was preparing on Monday to concede the race, the Raleigh News & Observer reported.

Westfield emptied a plastic bag of rolled-up £50 notes on to his bed, and said Kaneria had told him a "friend" would pay him to concede a certain number of runs.

They have also learned the obvious lessons of 2007-08, when Gordon Brown's initial reluctance to concede things were as bad as they turned out proved a tactical mistake.

For example, the defence may concede a case when prosecutors present a DNA fingerprint that links the defendant to a crime, negating the need for further tests.

Thus enlightened, I return to the shelves to discover that, among the plethora of recipes for coq au vin, a handful concede they can also be made with riesling "along the same lines" – somewhat surprisingly, given that rich, dark coq au vin and tangy, creamy coq au riesling seem two very different spins on the same basic ingredients to me.