The governor now concedes a "mistake" was made with last fall's early release program.
Admitting the (Greek-Cypriot) republic without settling its dispute with the (Turkish-Cypriot) north was, as Lord Patten concedes, "a mistake".
In my last, increasingly warm conversations with him in his final years, he conceded a mistake here and there.
Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, the deputy minister for women, children and people with disabilities, conceded a mistake had been made.
Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, the deputy minister for women, children and people with disabilities, conceded a mistake had been made, but denied that Thamsanqa Jantjie was a fraud and refused to rule out employing him again.
An occasionally bellicose man who, current and former colleagues say, has difficulty conceding a mistake, Mr. Summers nonetheless flew to Martha's Vineyard in August on short notice to spend four hours wooing Professor Gates.
The Washington Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran, whose Imperial Life was a National Book Award finalist, wrote that Senor "never conceded a mistake, and his efforts to spin failures into successes sometimes reached the point of absurdity".
"In reserve football you can make a mistake, concede a goal but go to training the next day and not think about it.
They made it clear she was unlikely to evoke the kind of ideological objections that Ms. Chavez did, objections that sped Ms. Chavez's fall once she conceded a personal mistake.
Conceding a few mistakes — "Look, they won, we lost, they did a better job," Mr. Stevens said — he argued that the Republican Party in general faces a problem with Hispanic voters, but that Mr. Romney was not hampered by his decision during the early nominating contests to tack to the right, advocating a process of "self-deportation" for illegal immigrants.
