Sentence examples for extraordinary concession from inspiring English sources

This was an extraordinary concession for a proud, resurgent nation.

In fact, on today's national conference call for football writers, Johnson made what amounted to an extraordinary concession.

Lawyers said that was an extraordinary concession, because using Kurdish in courts and other public offices is normally forbidden.

Elizabeth J. Shapiro, a lawyer in the Justice Department's civil division, called the decision to distribute the release forms to anthrax investigators "an extraordinary concession".

And by backing civil unions, the church would be making an extraordinary concession: recognizing that gay people are discriminated against as a class and should be protected by laws written specifically for them.

Goldman Sachs made an extraordinary concession that it "made a mistake" by not disclosing that the securities it sold were secretly designed by Paulsen and Co. to fail, not to make money for the innocent purchasers.

These are extraordinary concessions.

ReprintsLast year's protests resulted in some extraordinary concessions.

Mr. Crichton spoke against nuclear disarmament, arguing that reducing the number of warheads in the United States would necessitate making extraordinary concessions to pro-military Republicans.

To do so, he not only chose not to make an issue of G.O.P. extortion, he offered extraordinary concessions on Democratic priorities: an increase in the age of Medicare eligibility, sharp spending cuts and only small revenue increases.

In reality, it promises to involve enormous sacrifices, of land and everyday security alike — whether in the form of extraordinary concessions to a divided Palestinian leadership, or a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank that would be more wrenching than the 2005 retreat from Gaza.