Sentence examples for concessions from inspiring English sources

He seized on the tax-raising concessions made to Scotland and demanded them for the capital.

The Scottish referendum, coupled with the Smith commission on implementing its devolution concessions in Scotland, may have put the constitution on the agenda – even so, Whitehall fought Osborne down to the wire.

It was worsted by Ukip and its MPs were furious at ever more concessions being offered to Scotland, but denied to England.

Labor estimates that the winding back of the concessions would be worth $14bn over 10 years.

When asked why he didn't get more concessions out of Bush, Blair said 'I actually agreed with him.' That's Clegg's problem, he's very comfortable with most of this stuff.

He said the Queensland government would "continue to provide concessions to eligible Queensland pensioners".

"It is certainly not up to Joe Hockey to allocate concession arrangements provided by the states... and it seems increasingly unlikely the states will maintain those concessions for people who aren't pensioners any more," he said.

Salmond continued to talk of multiple questions, but it was nothing more than a bargaining chip for the talks – a way to extract concessions from Cameron on other issues: the timing of the poll, the wording of the question, and the franchise.

In fact Shorten announced no new spending cuts or revenue raising measures beyond the already announced policies to tighten superannuation tax concessions and raise more money from foreign multinationals, which the government has already rejected.

But one senior coalition figure said any concessions offered by the Germans would amount to "chickenfeed" that would not satisfy Tory eurosceptics.

Out of power in Dublin and strategically outflanked by the DUP since the St Andrews agreement two years ago, the party might be tempted back to the strategy of tension, to use the threat of violent street protest to exact fresh concessions from the British government.