Sentence examples for concede almost from inspiring English sources

The venture was getting outside the range of Manning's imagination now and he was ready to concede almost anything.

For Mr. Sharon, to resume where talks broke off would be to concede almost all the Golan Heights, a strategic redoubt where some 17,000 Jewish settlers live.

Finn is a serious prospect but to concede almost a run a ball is unacceptable for, as Ponting succinctly put it: "When the scoreboard is going nowhere, then the pressure on the batsmen increases".

And, far from buckling under pressure from the United States over sanctions against Iran, Russian leaders felt confident enough to concede almost nothing to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Moscow this week.

Fellow blogger Mohammed Suliman told me via Facebook that he found the revelations, chief among them that Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, "shocking but not unpredictable", referring to them as a "tragicomedy".

"It was another blow having got our noses in front to concede almost immediately.

"C'est pas de la merde," JB concedes, almost grudgingly.

After months of talks, the government conceded almost nothing.

No bowler escaped and Tino Best, despite his wonderful optimism and Trescothick's wicket, conceded almost five runs an over.

Having conceded almost 500, England might have reckoned that a win was beyond them or would take too many risks in the prevailing conditions.

At the other end, conceding almost 60 goals showed up the weakness at centre-back, where Richard Dunne is no longer reliable.