Sentence examples for about to concede from inspiring English sources

But he wasn't about to concede it entirely.

That's the issue, and John Kerry is not about to concede that constituency".

Needless to say, Pavin was not about to concede defeat before a ball was struck, nor was he about to apologies for his gaffe at the opening ceremony.

secretary general who died of a stroke last month on the eve of the organization's annual assembly, was about to concede as much.

The theories — involving the Holocaust (stemming from Nicholson's German typewriter), the Apollo Space project, fairy tales, and more and more and more — continue, until the viewer is about to concede all of them.

Not that the 31-year-old No8 was about to concede he had been in the wrong: "I don't know that it was a foul, but the ref is always right".

Mr. Lazio called Mrs. Clinton at her hotel suite about 10 40 p.m. to concede and offer her congratulations, according to aides to both candidates.

This is not an argument for fighting; I am finally about ready to concede that fighting is dumb.

He did not recognize himself in their phrase "hard-core recidivist," but as the weeks went by he felt farther and farther away from his old self and must have begun, amid his anxiety about writing, to concede the point that survival had to come first.

Mr. Schwarzenegger was entertaining a celebrity-laden gathering at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles when he was told Mr. Davis was about to call to concede.

The modernising young Conservative leader who began by warning his party about "banging on" about Europe went on to concede the referendum that guarantees a year or two in which politics is all about banging on about Europe to the exclusion of anything else.