I willingly concede that the important thing is that we establish a balance between the institutions, that one institution does not completely dominate another.
At this point, though, the important thing is to concede the principle of debt relief, guarantee the flow of credit to Greek banks from the European Central Bank, and restore some stability and confidence.
It took another 10 years of heavy politicking, and mobilisation of support from the Organisation of African Unity, before President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing recognised the advantage of conceding, with the important proviso, which Gouled was canny enough to accept, that the French maintain nearly 4,000 troops at the Djibouti naval base.
In a letter to the secretary-general dated August 12, Gaye conceded that "the important progress achieved by MINUSCA has been overshadowed by serious cases of human rights violations, including sexual exploitation".
We knew coming back in at half-time it was important not to concede the second goal, but we were too impatient.
Mr Cameron said a press law had been avoided - although he conceded the clauses were "two very important but relatively small legislative changes" that needed to be made.
But conceding the point on Farrakhan was important and showed a bit more of the man, which is good, even though he had to be led to it.
If the public rejects outsourcing because it falsely believes that workers in foreign call-centres are being exploited, that is not fine: that is the market, through popular misconception, getting it wrong.In a way, this is to concede an important point to the advocates of CSR.
Many proponents of empirical adaptationism concede that important aspects of the evolution of DNA and protein sequences are little influenced by natural selection.
