"I thought he made serious mistakes," Professor Kloppenberg said, "and I thought he compounded the problems by refusing to concede his errors.
Unlike some Brotherhood leaders, Mr. Beltagy is willing to concede some errors by Mr. Morsi, who often seemed indifferent to police repression of non-Islamist protesters during his calamitous year in power.
If people really are responding to Cameron like an audience dazzled and charmed by a virtuoso improviser, this is a major problem for his opponents, because his readiness to concede errors adds to the performance, as – bizarrely – do the errors themselves.
The police concede errors were made.
Innocent people do end up in prison, on death row and possibly even executed because of poor performance from prosecutors as well as defense counsel, and because of a refusal to concede and correct errors like false confessions and faulty eyewitness identification procedures.
As John Kampfner notes, the manifesto authors remain compromised by their failure to concede their error in supporting the initial invasion.
However, Evans had to concede "one error" when the BHA's investigating team leader, Tim Miller, initially responded to Morrison's request for the Southwell CCTV.
Mr. Gore's decision to embrace campaign finance as an issue seems striking, given his own history -- and the fact that when the disclosures first surfaced about his fund-raising, he steadfastly refused to concede any error.
Mr. Berardino also conceded that errors by Andersen had contributed to erroneous financial reporting by Enron.
She has, on occasion, conceded her errors with qualifiers, but has mostly stood her ground.
I reminded Wolfowitz that President Bush had recently conceded that errors had been made in the prosecution of the war.
