Various versions of this are on the order paper, including some viewed with alarm by ministers because they cede control of the parliamentary timetable to backbenchers.
But Saudi Arabia — still the world's single biggest petroleum exporter — argues, along with Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, that production cuts would be pointless because they would only cede more of the global market to the shale producers in the United States and other rivals.
For example, Spain didn't cede control of the New World because it went bankrupt and England passed it by in terms of trade, technology or any of that.
Israel remains willing to cede parts of its national homeland because Israel values peace over land.
Camden's newly elected mayor, Gwendolyn Faison, said Mr. DiFrancesco's plan was flawed because he wanted her to cede control of the revitalization effort to the state.
Areas in the Middle East and Africa have more oil, but they can be challenging to explore because of political upheaval and because oil-rich countries are reluctant to cede control of their resources.
When negotiating with your boss, for instance, you sometimes may need to cede to his preferences because of his high status.
But, in 2009, he had a falling out with the Ibrahim Foundation, partly because the board wanted his Harvard team to quickly cede control of the index to African scholars and to the foundation.
But carmakers also face rigorous rules for preventing distraction, and would be unlikely to cede control of interface design entirely to operating system makers anyway, both because of this and their desire to control the customer experience.
That is because the government, while wanting Western expertise and capital, is no longer willing to cede half of Russia's valuable resources to foreign enterprises.
Utilities won't willingly cede control of the electric grid.
