Sentence examples for concede error from inspiring English sources

That's one reason that, by the time of his dismissal, Comey had few public advocates and many detractors for his actions and his unwillingness to concede error.

At a news conference last week, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who heads the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the modern successor to the Inquisition, addressed the issue of why the church feels ready to concede error now, and not in earlier times.

Highly intelligent people can think of rationalizations for their beliefs in situations in which the less intelligent would be forced to give up and concede error, and highly educated people have larger stores of information from which to selectively search for information supporting a desired belief.

The police concede errors were made.

If people really are responding to Cameron like an audience dazzled and charmed by a virtuoso improviser, this is a major problem for his opponents, because his readiness to concede errors adds to the performance, as – bizarrely – do the errors themselves.

Neither concedes error or defeat.

Officials of the council said yesterday that they were not conceding error; rather, they said, they had been misunderstood.

Presumably this contention does not mean to imply that petitioner conceded error with regard to the state-court factual determinations, but instead that he "abandoned" his right to rely on § 2254 d) as a reason for not rejecting these factual determinations.

It is notable that, in this, the closest Kelly brought him to conceding error, Jones says "children," not "the children," leaving open the possibility that a few died — just not the twenty that "the media" claimed.

(He doesn't apologize to Al Gore for his previous criticism — or for stealing the 2000 election for that matter. But given how much Bush cherishes his reputation as a stubborn durned cuss, he deserves credit for conceding error at all).

In 2000, while the case was on appeal, the state attorney general at the time, John Cornyn, made an unusual announcement, conceding error in Mr. Buck's case and six others in which the government had relied on race as a factor in sentencing.