Sentence examples for conceded the debate from inspiring English sources

Democrats conceded the debate before it began, permitting the minority tail (Republicans and Blue Dogs) to wag the dog.

Fortunatus proposed that Augustine was reducing the scope of evil only to what is committed by humans, though Augustine writes that Fortunatus finally conceded the debate when he admitted that he could not defend his views on the origin of evil.

Now if all these elements could be packaged into a new technology – a new learning model then I would hold my hands up now and concede the debate.

However, rather than dismiss this concept out of hand, there are sound strategic reasons for social democrats to lead rather than concede the debate about reforming welfare spending.

But the dissenters are a long way from conceding the debate, and they have seized on other aspects of the panel's report in an effort to bolster their case.

Besides, many technological improvements seem to have simply speeded up the extraction of oil, rather than increasing the share of each reservoir that can be recovered.Oil clocks outIn short, as Mr Simmons readily concedes, the debate between proponents and critics of "peak oil" boils down to an argument about timing.

Democrats concede the debate before it begins.

But Radcliffe conceded that the debate could not be solved by the simple wave of a wand and opted not to take a firm stance on the issue.

The negative part of the campaign, focused on the expenditure cuts likely under an Abbott government, has had some effect, but has been crippled by Labor's willingness to concede the economic debate as a whole to Abbott and his party.

We discuss numerous problems with this argument (and the related argument that radical changes to anti-discrimination law are in order) but concede that the debate over what steps, short of quotas, can check implicit prejudice is not resolvable given the paucity of data that clashing camps jointly treat as probative.

Even Mark McKinnon, the chief ad maker for Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, conceded that the debates had had a greater impact than the commercials.