He will almost admit to having fun.
Last week Balls alarmed some by almost admitting he had bet the whole farm on George Osborne's cuts seriously killing growth.
Mark Linsey, the BBC's head of entertainment commissioning, almost admits as much, albeit in a circuitous way.
Of course, having native teachers is really great, but if you have exclusively native speakers, that's almost admitting defeat".
Or he may have found that the uniform is not, after all, an attraction; indeed, he almost admits as much.
"There's a strong disincentive to think about your relationship as being in trouble - that's almost admitting failure by admitting that something isn't right".
Both names portray a tragic dimension, almost admitting there were no alternative futures to what was commonly used (used future).
Davies says the Welsh regions are almost admitting they are just breeding grounds for Europe's top clubs.
But this is almost admitting that these loci are special, indirectly reinforcing a selectionist interpretation, whereby the effects of purifying and adaptive selection did interchangeably create opposite patterns of diversity.
Something was almost said, almost acknowledged, admitted, possibly almost relinquished.
