Sentence examples for concede the right from inspiring English sources

In the end the government had to concede the right to sleep in the tube stations to avert further unrest.

The Greg Abbotts of Texas politics have one piece of information Mr. Dewhurst did not have: when there are no strong Democrats running, there is no reason to concede the right to another Republican.

Once leaders concede the right to choose the leader of the commission, it will be lost.The British are most averse to Spitzenkandidaten, in principle and out of dislike for Mr Schulz.

There was no indication that either the Israelis or the Palestinians had compromised on core issues — such as ending Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank or conceding the right of return of Palestinian refugees — that have sunk previous negotiations.

Does President Abbas, already a weakened figure, have the courage to defend the necessary concessions to his people, particularly when it comes to conceding the "right of return" to Israel?

(For whistle-blowers, a last-minute amendment concedes the right to make a report to a lawful authority if someone appears to have breached the laws of the BVI .The new law also makes child pornography illegal, but with a lesser sentence of just ten years in prison and with a public-interest defence where the pornography is used for scientific, research or law-enforcement purposes.

In one sense this was not unprecedented; other kings had previously conceded the right of individual resistance to their subjects if the king did not uphold his obligations.

King John I accepted Ottoman suzerainty in 1529, but in the Treaty of Nagyvárad of 1538 he conceded the right of the Habsburgs to succeed him after his death.

Any party may voluntarily limit the geographic scope of its application while conceding the rights of another party to a different geographic territory.

If the rest of us concede the unimpeded right for you to have an arsenal at the ready, will you stop open carry legislation?

Similarly, US Congress is preparing to issue sanctions against Venezuela for human rights violations committed by the security forces during protests last year; an incredible feat of double standards, given that even Venezuela's harshest critics would concede the human rights situation there isn't even close to the crisis in Mexico, or – for that matter – Colombia.