Sentence examples for concede gracefully from inspiring English sources

Where should he bull ahead, and where concede gracefully?Two sets of U-turns are now mooted: he should avoid one and make the other.

It is time for her, at a moment of her choosing, to concede gracefully and throw the considerable weight of the Clintons behind their party's best hope.

Most of all, Clark wanted his fellow-Republicans to "concede gracefully"—with the kind of attitude that he wanted to see return to politics, both local and national.

International election observers have called on politicians defeated in Kenya's fiercely contested polls to concede gracefully without taking their struggle to the streets.

"The time has come for the vice president to admit defeat, concede gracefully and allow our nation to move forward with the transition of power".

Cynics might say that the security and intelligence services had initially asked for much broader powers than they needed in order to concede gracefully.

Mr McCain conceded gracefully, praising his rival and offering him his full support.

"I conceded gracefully," he said, then told me he'd written a book about relationships.

She suggested that Mr. Gore should have followed in the footsteps of Richard M. Nixon after he lost a close race against John F. Kennedy, and conceded gracefully weeks ago.

But even in defeat, Dukakis conceded gracefully and without self-pity, and by his words, set a tone for national reconciliation and good will toward Bush.

It's time for Congressional leaders to use the learning experience of the SOPA/PIPA debate to throw off their generational blinders and find a way to concede power gracefully to a new generation with new ideas.