Sentence examples for conceding rights from inspiring English sources

But frequently, it is alleged, the real effect of conceding rights to these sorts of group is to reinforce the power of conservative elites whose wishes and interests clash with those of others in the group.

It conceded rights and representative institutions.

They conceded right away why they were going.

Does the evidence from Iran bear this out It should be conceded right away that Iran has given soft power a reasonably fair hearing.

"We were disappointed to go into half-time 7-3 down because we conceded right on the whistle.

"If you are a schoolboy you get told that if you score, make sure you don't concede right away," he said.

The authors concede right at the outset of the subsection on Names of Organizations that efforts to distinguish, by upper- and lowercase, between communism as an ideology and Communism as a political party are usually hopeless (was John F. Kennedy an anti-communist or an anti-Communist, or both?), and that Communist and Communism might as well be uppercased everywhere they appear.

Early favorites included Laura Newcombe and Veronica Penny, both from Canada (the idea of the "National Spelling Bee" is evidently somewhat elastic); Sukanya Roy, a tall Indian teenager from Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Dakota Jones, a short blonde boy from Las Vegas — though it should be conceded right off the bat that the idea of picking favorites in a Spelling Bee is profoundly sad.

Albeit, he concedes, "right now our process is very manual".

We conceded right at the death, but the goal was off-side and rightly so.

It was a poor goal to concede right at the death.