Sentence examples for concede the match from inspiring English sources
The move would concede the match if the Italians fulfilled their contract, but would let the Americans tie if they beat the contract by one trick, or win if they beat it by two tricks.
Either my victory would be assured by turn six, or I'd be sure enough of my imminent defeat to concede the match and move on to the next one.
Starting with the hammer, GB went 2-0 up in the first end and 4-2 up in the third, before a five-point steal in the seventh prompted their opponents to concede the match.
Then, the long-delayed but crucial issues of Jerusalem and refugees, Israel-Palestine borders and Jewish settlements, were finally addressed, with formidable pressure on Yasser Arafat to concede the match and yield any further claims against Israel, a pressure he successfully resisted with the reward of Arab accolade and American-Israeli contumely.
The headlock is a position familiar from childhood roughhousing and Olympic-style wrestling, in which it is used for takedowns; in jujitsu, where the goal is not to pin the opponent but to force him to concede the match, the headlock is an opportunity for strangulation.
That certainly does not mean that Cardiff is conceding the match before it is played, however.
There were still two ends to play when David Murdoch decided enough was enough and conceded the match.
Yesterday he won his first-round match when Michael Llodra strained his quadriceps while trailing and conceded the match.
China's Ding Junhui lost his way in the final of the British Masters last night, conceding the match a frame too early to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
In his view, Djokovic, having basically conceded the match, swung away and got lucky; it was a rebuke to Federer's vision of proper tennis/physics/divine will.
