He agrees that Mr Hollande is intelligent, citing as an example a meeting with him last December at which he conceded not only that steep social charges were putting French business at a competitive disadvantage but also that the Socialists' hallowed 35-hour week had been a big handicap.
At a conference for hospital officials two weeks after the attack, he became discouraged, he said, when federal officials conceded not only that some of their health care planning for a terror attack was lacking, but also that they had made no special preparations for children.
In this connection, it is worth noting that Mill can concede not only differential accomplishments of the sexes but differential capacity, in at least one sense.
Insofar as it acknowledges that "conditions of poverty, marginalization, [and] weak institutional presence" have all contributed to the coca-growing phenomenon, the preliminary peace agreement tacitly concedes not only that supply-side drug policy has failed, but that it was reckless and overly punitive to start with.
Even Norman Siegel, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union and a man who is pleased to make a meal of Giuliani every chance he gets, concedes, "Now not only the perception, but I think the expectation of whoever comes next, is that you're going to have to continue to have that kind of city, and we don't want the squeegee guy or the panhandlers out on the street".
As an attempt to defend a contextualist hidden variables interpretation, this position must concede that not only does the system have, in the Q-measurement situation, a value v(Q), but also, in a P-measurement situation, it has a value v′(Q), although perhaps v′(Q) ≠ v(Q).
The other diners conceded the point, not only because the place is named after the stuff, but because in most respects, Melissa O'Donnell, the chef at Salt, seems so meticulous.
Democrats conceded they are not only fighting against tides of history — only twice in the last 75 years has the president's party not lost seats in a midterm election — but a bleak economy and an unemployment rate that remains close to 10 percent.
Syriza's leader Alexis Tsipras not only conceded early, but assured the press he would not try and form a coalition of his own: that is, he would not be waiting to tempt Pasok and the Democratic Left into a Syriza-led coalifion if the main talks fail.
De Botton, in welcome contrast, concedes that religion might not only be benign but also offer things of value for all.
"We did not succeed because our Palestinian neighbors have yet to internalize that in order to obtain true peace some of one's dreams must be conceded; one has to give, not only request.
