He was quick to admit ignorance in the face of knotty social problems.
In a 2008 op-ed for The New York Times, author Dan Koeppel said humans may need to admit defeat in the face of Panama disease's steady spread, and prepare to say goodbye to the beloved banana. .
Graham is admitting defeat in the face of a GOP base that abhors the kind of Trump critic he once was.
These groups, known as fellowships, are based on the premise that there are 12 steps to recovering from addiction, from the first, of admitting powerlessness in the face of addiction, to taking stock of personal failings and past wrongs and handing over life's decisions to an unspecified "power greater than ourselves".
Dr. Hullah is a more attractive narrator when he describes rather than expounds: he is brilliant when he admits defeat in the face of death and gives himself up to wonder.
Sierra Leone, where health officials have admitted defeat in the face of the epidemic, has a past that's basically a five-century catalogue of violence, rape, slavery, and oppression.
These days, even big-league politicians admit their powerlessness in the face of major companies.
They buy TV ads to get public opinion behind their issue; then they commission polls to prove that public opinion is behind their issue; then they thwack these polls down on the desks of quaking congressmen, who must toe the generally-supported line or face the consequences at election time.The politicians themselves freely admit their impotence in the face of lobbies.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.' "That's the twelve-step idea of admitting your weakness in the face of addiction and giving yourself up to a higher power," he continued.
Mr Osborne admits this flies in the face of traditional British policy, which has always suspected such a union as being the precursor of an elite group of EU members, which would ultimately dictate policy to those on the outside.
