Sentence examples for enormous concession from inspiring English sources

But by allowing the Islamists back into the political picture Sadat was making an enormous concession.

Now a few Republicans are saying they'll agree to higher revenues, as if that obvious need is an enormous concession, but they're still refusing to support increased tax rates.

He paid for Putin's permission to tinker with the ABM treaty with an enormous concession: "They agree that issues of strategic offensive arms cannot be considered in isolation from issues of strategic defensive arms and vice versa....".

So this was an enormous concession won by the Iraqis.

The wordsmiths in the White House tried to spin what appeared to be an enormous concession -- Maliki and the Iraqis wanted a definite date for American troops to be out of Iraq (something Bush has resisted and even ridiculed for years now).

By all accounts, he has had to make enormous concessions.

Siniora survived, though only after making enormous concessions to Hezbollah.

The enormous concessions have been obtained in behind-the-scenes negotiations over terms for the Rumaila field since the deal was originally signed.

Ireland, Israel, and Malta are all polities that have been long dominated by religious monopolies accustomed to obtaining enormous concessions in education, the welfare state, and reproductive technologies.

Enormous concessions from the White House, to satisfy demands driven largely by the radical Tea Party flank of the Republican Party, provided the key to unlock the door to a deal, pending congressional approval.

He said that he did not have a specific proposal yet for a debtor conference on Iraq but asserted that there was "moral and financial weight" behind the proposition that Iraq, now free of Mr. Hussein, deserves enormous concessions from the oil-producing nations and from the dozens of countries that hold hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraqi debts or claims for reparations.