Sentence examples for claim concession from inspiring English sources

Merin 1994 seeks to reduce the manipulations to a sequential combination of so-called elementary social acts: claim, concession, denial, and retraction.

It has become clear by now that tacit "understandings reached in Paris last fall leading to the halt in the bombing of N. Vietnam in Nov., were little more than semantic rationalizations enabling both side to claim concessions while keeping all of their choices intact Communist attacks began again on the night of Feb. 22-23, after more than 2 months of jockeying for position on both sides.

A claimed "concession" proffered by the vice-president, Álvaro García Linera, does not look like one to the opposition: the final text of the constitution would require a two-thirds majority for approval.

The simultaneous opening of talks on the NSA, Prism and surveillance is designed to mute such calls and give European leaders an opportunity to climb down while claiming concessions from the Americans, EU diplomats said.

Israeli conservatives claim that concessions on these issues are out of the question and are a betrayal to the nation.

He has not denied claiming tax concessions as a "non-dom", on the grounds that his father lived in Paris.

In a statement on Wednesday morning, the Public and Commercial Services Union said that it was suspending its threat after obtaining what it claimed were concessions from the government.

Democratic leaders claimed the concessions they had made to Republicans and moderate Democrats to trim the measure had cleared the way for its passage.

That could be an elegant solution, allowing the Pakistanis to claim a major concession while the Americans write off the cost as a transportation expense.

But local people in the area covered by Chevron's concession, claim that such relationships went beyond what might be reasonably termed constructive.

Rockefeller was later to claim that these concessions proved how humane his company had been, but most were requirements under Colorado state law.