Sentence examples for conceded the idea from inspiring English sources

Buchris argued that such a statement already conceded the idea of a nuclear-armed Iran.

By Friday afternoon, Anastasiades and his colleagues had reportedly conceded the idea of increasing the size of the levy on large deposits, although the exact details of their plan remained unclear.

Mr Alexander conceded the idea faced a number of "hurdles", including the impact on the government's finances.

Sometimes, Mr. Hoke conceded, the ideas sent his way from the outside are far-fetched.

I can grudgingly concede the idea of using a plain vanilla cake to represent the middle of the log is a clever one visually – after all, logs are sort of beige inside – but I don't like it in practice.

Conservatives willfully refuse to grapple with the possibility that better family planning reduces the number of abortions -- and pro-choice people seldom make the argument because they don't want to concede the idea that reducing the number of abortions is a goal worth discussing.

He conceded that the idea was unusual.

He conceded that the idea might seem unrealistic.

In comments carried by the Interfax news agency, Mr. Lavrov conceded that the idea existed only on paper now, but said Russia would be "keen" to take part if it came about.

But an EU official conceded that the idea of mandatory quotas "will never gather support from member states" and would be watered down to a voluntary pledge with further details about who will accept new refugees postponed until next month.

His Police Commissioner, Arthur Woods, conceded that the idea of tapping a wire was "revolting" but defended his men on the ground that "you can't always do detective work in a high hat and kid gloves".