Sentence examples for cede on from inspiring English sources

"We look for all possible contacts, we use the intermediaries that can be the most useful, but we do not cede on principles — which is the nonpayment by France of ransoms," Mr. Hollande said at a news conference in Paris.

As he did in the debate over prescription drug coverage, Mr. Cheney has worked to convince conservatives that any ground that they cede on a particular issue is purely tactical, not ideological, political analysts say.

When President Abbas recently made conciliatory gestures indicating willingness to cede on the Palestinian "right of return," Netanyahu treated it as a non-event.

The Democrats ceded on both points.

It's the incremental ceding of control on one side that can prime someone for abuse, therapists said.

In short order, she has demonstrated a willingness to bend on tactics to accommodate the concerns of allies without ceding on broad principles, what she calls "practical idealism". She also conducts a more aggressive personal diplomacy, breaking State Department records for foreign travel and setting up diplomatic tag teams with top staff on urgent issues.

She was formally ceded on 3 September 1920 under the name P; the British in turn sold her for scrapping in 1922, and she was dismantled in Germany over the following year.

But the New Voyages episodes he was executive-producing (he'd already ceded the on-screen Kirk role to another actor) were still in post-production and clocked in around an hour.

As David Sassoon writes in his Solve Climate blog, "If Micronesia submits the amendment, the US can always join in after the fact, but would cede leadership on the issue to one of the smallest nations on the planet".

That's neither here nor there and was addressed quite nicely by David Pogue in the Times, so I'll cede to his eloquence on that point.

And it's no doubt been difficult for Google to cede ground on its own operating system after pouring so many hours on a system designed to tie together its myriad services.