Sentence examples for cede defeat from inspiring English sources
"Many people leave the city grudgingly, and the reason they can cede defeat and leave is the value proposition," said Alex Silberman, a broker with Keller Williams Realty who works in Essex County, N.J.
But high voter turnout and extensive international scrutiny helped persuade Mr Saakashvili to cede defeat, paving the way for Georgia's first constitutional transfer of power.That has given independent Georgia "a fourth chance of democracy after the opportunities under Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1990-92), Eduard Shevardnadze (1992-2003) and Saakashvili all faded".
As a European I'll cede defeat and admit that any record produced in our green and formerly-prosperous part of the world should only come in the dub format.
Some say the anti-abortion movement looks so successful because it has essentially ceded defeat on the broader goal of ending legal abortion.
Eventually our protagonist ceded defeat, and handed the water bottle over for someone else to give it a try.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, presidential elections were postponed, while the Gambia's president, Yahya Jammeh, ceded electoral defeat, then refused to step down.
After 12 years in office, the country's 86-year-old president, Abdoulaye Wade, ceded electoral defeat to his popular rival Macky Sall.
In his final statement, Cohen laid out the stakes very clearly: Trump might not cede power if defeated in 2020.
On Tuesday, after claiming he "came in peace" when ceding the ADP defeat, he then blamed his failure on the U.S. proxy election system.
The question is whether either man will cede any measure of defeat.
Some Israelis hoped that the firefighting help given by Turkey might lead to a thaw in the two countries' recently frosty relations.The incumbent president of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to cede power after his defeat in a run-off poll by a margin of eight percentage points, according to the country's electoral commission, at the hands of Alassane Ouattara, a former IMF man.
