Sentence examples for early concession from inspiring English sources

"It was my finest hour," he said apropos of President Carter's early concession speech to Reagan.

In most negotiations initial demands far exceed expectations; concessions are as small and as slow as possible, for early concession indicates eagerness and engenders demands for more concessions.

He had tweaked his system with the selection of Simon Cox in front of a midfield four in a bid for greater stability but he lamented how the early concession had sent the tactical plan "out of the window".

Iceland, even shocked by their early concession which might have wrecked other sides' game-plans, roared back so startlingly here that their giddy support were bellowing hearty olé's before the break.

Many political analysts attributed his defeat to President Jimmy Carter's early concession to Ronald Reagan, which came before the polls closed on the West Coast, discouraging some Democrats from voting.

A PIVOTAL MOMENT -- An early concession by the chief lawyer for Vice President Al Gore began a chain of legal events that ended with the United States Supreme Court's ruling that time had simply run out.

Paradoxically, the scandal over Mrs. Robinson and the loans she arranged for her lover may have reduced the urgency of the dispute, because Mr. Robinson's stepping aside until late February appears to have made it harder for republicans to press for early concessions.

In contrast to prior years, when Mr. Giuliani's budget proposal has been an opening round for hard bargaining and bitter recriminations between the mayor's staff and the Council, several of its members seemed bemused yesterday by the mayor's early concessions.

The public option and the Pitts-Stupak amendment blocking federal dollars to fund abortion were early concessions, and it was unclear whether universal health care would include measures for birth control.

Kempe makes the valuable and sometimes ignored point that an authoritarian leader has to answer to critics at home and does not always have a free hand, though Khrushchev did feel free to offer a bouquet of early concessions to the Kennedy administration.

In an earlier concession to the public mood, Goldman announced in December that its top 30 executives would be paid only in deferred stock, with no cash component.