The phrase "a sort of concession" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when acknowledging a compromise or an allowance made in a discussion or argument.
Example: "After much debate, we reached a sort of concession that would satisfy both parties involved."
Alternatives: "a kind of compromise" or "a type of allowance".
The inclusion of this wildly self-evident stipulation — a sort of bland, unconscious concession — says something, in its small way, about the long-standing pervasiveness of American anti-anti-Communism, a quiescent orthodoxy that drove some conservatives to extremes.
This new arrangement with Nokia seems like it's probably a sort of 11th hour concession of defeat, coming as it does on the heels of a loss to the Finnish company by the District Court of Mannheim published earlier this week which would've seen HTC forced to rethink its device design.
As it turned out, businesses with reasonably good prospects could obtain funding in return for some sort of concession: a strategic alliance, a pledge of collateral or an equity participation.
But in agreeing with the White House decision to reduce the Pentagon's budget request for 2012 to $553 billion, excluding the costs of the wars, from the $566 billion that he thought he had been promised, Mr. Gates took "a sort of one-step-back concession to reality," said Gordon Adams, a former Clinton administration official who served on Mr. Obama's transition team.
Clearly the government will do all it can to reverse the Lords vote and will want to make some sort of concession, perhaps by offering to take a few more families from the region.
The assumption is that Sinn Fein can sell to its people the sort of concession that Mr Trimble has convinced everyone that he cannot sell to his.
I've heard what they say about helping lower-income students and that sort of concession, so we'll be thinking about it.
