Sentence examples for conceded to him from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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".

Into this atmosphere comes a young American lieutenant with the 6th Fleet who stays with his cousin, an uptight businessman who at least is in tune with local feeling and embarrassed by his unwanted guest though he concedes to showing him the city – bars, discos, all of it – and introducing him to an attractive Catalan woman, who says, "You seem very intelligent for an American".

In the book, she describes her first meeting with Obama after she conceded defeat to him in the Democratic primary.

Alcibiades realized this and, by presenting the Athenians with stiffer and stiffer demands on Tissaphernes's behalf, attempted to convince them that he had persuaded Tissaphernes to support them, but that they had not conceded enough to him.

She also accused him of conceding to her in 1985, while they were married, that he had received inside information about the takeover of RCA by General Electric.

Many of his liberal critics have argued that the president's belief in the possibility of compromise led him to concede to congressional Republicans on his budgetary priorities in the mistaken hope of reaching a bipartisan bargain.