Sentence examples for concession statement from inspiring English sources

In a concession statement, Mr. Jacob said he and Mr. Cannon "were not opponents".

In a gracious concession statement to his supporters in Houston, Bush said: "Here's the way I see it...

"My opponent is an intelligent, articulate and attractive man and I've never been to Idaho," he told FoxNews.com in a concession statement.

But Mr. Bush promised in his concession statement to campaign in all 50 states, dismissing New Hampshire as a mere "bump in the road".

When her husband's voice failed him the morning after he was defeated by Jimmy Carter in 1976, it was she who read the official concession statement with smiling grace.

"I am disappointed that I won't be able to continue my investigations of the Obama administration such as the risky loan guarantee to Solyndra and holding Planned Parenthood accountable to the taxpayers," he said in his concession statement.

Concession statements are supposed to calming, dignified, conciliatory.

Looking ahead to the negotiations over concessions, the statement said: "The company is committed to completing a financial recovery plan that meets the needs of its customers, preserves jobs and positions the company on the road to financial stability".

And when the prime minister was reported as saying that the depth of security arrangments in the Golan should be commensurate with the depth of concessions (a statement he denies making), he seemed to be echoing his Labour predecessors' equation that the depth of withdrawal should match the depth of peace.No more than summer shuffling, probably.

Mr. Mbeki's cabinet hailed the concessions in a statement on Thursday as a major step toward "a lasting settlement" of Zimbabwe's political and social problems.

Their new inclusion of the "Medieval Warm Period" – long before the Industrial Revolution and its associated fossil-fuel burning – is a concession that its earlier statement is highly questionable.