Sentence examples for concede to him from inspiring English sources

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I remember a conversation about property taxation – the way in which we tax property in this country is clearly bonkers – and at the end of lengthy discussions, when at one point George Osborne was tempted to accept a mansion tax in return for other things we would concede to him – the answer I got from David Cameron was, "No, I won't do that because my people won't like it".

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[Clinton] congratulated him and she conceded to him on election night and now we're going to drag this out?

Mr. Parmer said Dominican officials had privately conceded to him that they "just underestimated the impact" of the hurricane.

Mr. Obama, who -- as it happens -- will meet Mr. Medvedev in New York next week, has now, whether it was his intention or not, conceded to him.

Matthias advanced into Bohemia, and, in the Treaty of Lieben (1608), Rudolf conceded to him the rule of Hungary, the Austrian Danube countries, and Moravia, while Matthias had to give up the Tirol and the Vorlande to the emperor.

But last week, when Israel conceded to him full control of Abu Dis and two other villages, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization moved one step nearer to a dream that had sustained him through his exile in Tunisia.

At first, we took turns on who got to make decisions: He followed my lead when I wanted to take a yearlong maternity leave, and I conceded to him on store-bought diapers.

Freeland, I should point out, is no Marxist, and although conceding to him one or two minor points, she is still very much of the opinion that capitalism is "the best prosperity-creating system humanity has come up with so far", as she has said in the financial blog she writes for Reuters.

The authorship of the Commentariolum Petitionis is generally conceded to him.

Rickie Fowler won a match that featured an 18-foot par putt conceded to him by Sergio Garcia, who felt bad because of a ruling that had taken too much time on the previous hole.

An alternative interpretation, however, is that the passage in Bede should be translated as "Rædwald, king of the East Angles, who while Æthelberht lived, even conceded to him the military leadership of his people"; if this is Bede's intent, then East Anglia firmly was under Æthelberht's overlordship.

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