Sentence examples for a surprising concession from inspiring English sources

In a surprising concession to the public outcry over big Wall Street bonuses, Goldman broke with the longtime industry practice of earmarking roughly half of its annual revenue for compensation.

Mr. Abbas's answer, in an interview broadcast on Israeli television on Friday night — yes, he would like to visit, but not to live there; Safed is part of Israel — was widely interpreted as a surprising concession on the demands of Palestinians to return to their pre-1948 homes, perhaps the most intractable and emotional of all the unsettled issues in the decades-old dispute.

But in a surprising concession to romance, the A.M.A. does discuss what to do if a patient with a runny nose or hacking cough proves irresistible: "At a minimum, a physician's ethical duties include terminating the physician-patient relationship before initiating a dating, romantic or sexual relationship".

The New York Republican State Committee, which wants to bar Senator John McCain from the presidential primary in some parts of the state for submitting flawed nominating petitions, made a surprising concession yesterday: its workers fraudulently assembled petitions for the party favorite, Gov. George W. Bush, in a Congressional district in the South Bronx.

It may seem like a surprising concession — Sony is a globally-known brand after all — but it isn't exactly a stranger to abandoning tough-to-crack market segments.

Just a few hours later, the company disclosed that the chaos had prompted an insider trading investigation, a surprising concession after some in the cryptocurrency world cried foul (to be fair, they are often crying foul).

I was afraid I would lose compassion for Chinese," is his surprising concession.

That was O.K. by Clegg and his party, and the two teams of negotiators were able to do a deal that saw surprising concessions on both sides.

By John Lanchester The Clegg-Cameron deal saw surprising concessions on both sides.

So far, we have seen almost every right-wing Prime Minister making surprising concessions for peace.

Although direct cash handouts were few and far for the startup community in this year's budget, a surprising announcement has come in the form of tax concessions.