Sentence examples for got a concession from inspiring English sources

"If you got a concession speech call, we declared you a winner". Luca responded that she would try to address the board's concerns.

But then we got a concession - the park construction was put on hold.

But Angelo did get a concession on another front: the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association WHCACA).

Any electricity meter that is registered in the name of a woman gets a concession of 10 paisa [one-tenth of a rupee] per unit [of electricity consumed].

"Iraq provokes a confrontation, knowing there will be no consensus in the Security Council and knowing they'll get a concession," Mr. Ritter said.

In 2002, for example, Mayor James and a handful of legislators from the Newark area held up the state budget to get a concession for a sports arena downtown.

Mr. Mullins said that drivers were "reluctant to lock into a long-term commitment they're not happy about" and that after failing to get a concession from the companies, they had no other choice but to call a strike.

That could give Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at least a smidgen of room to maneuver if and when they decide to strike an overall deal: the White House could get a "clean" debt ceiling vote (though of short duration) and the GOP could get a concession or two on the continuing resolution to fund the government's annual spending.

They got a few concessions, particularly on the primary surplus they are required to run, and some cosmetic changes in what things are called, the old vocabulary having become untouchable.

We moved every three years because if you moved you got a three-month concession in the rent.

He began by buying an option on 1.5 billion shares of the firm for $3 million, and got a promising offshore concession where, in late 1975, he began drilling for oil in partnership with Amoco and Salen, a Swedish firm.