Sentence examples for gracefully concede from inspiring English sources

Will the military gracefully concede defeat, President Thein Sein congratulating his Lady rival on her party's victory, while decorated soldiers retreat to a handful of comfortable parliamentary sedans guaranteed by the controversial 2008 Constitution?

As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede defeat and throw her support behind her party's defacto nominee, Barack Obama?

Mr Saakashvili has gracefully conceded defeat (see article).

Wade secured an overwhelming majority of the votes in the runoff election, and Diouf gracefully conceded.

Mr Saakashvili gracefully conceded that his United National Movement (UNM) had lost, and welcomed Mr Ivanishvili into power.But not just yet.

Some gracefully conceded the defeat – and the saviour of the Union – by thanking Scotland for taking part, and, as Billy Bragg put it, "putting devolution for England on the agenda".

He was a celebrity and successful former governor who had campaigned for other Republicans at hundreds of fund-raisers, waged a hard battle for the nomination in 1976 and gracefully conceded at the convention.

The bromide has achieved its prominence for two reasons: 1) it gracefully concedes deflated ambitions; but 2) suggests there's still room to make a buck.

Besides Samantha Bee gracefully conceding to crossing the line in some people's eyes after calling Ivanka Trump a "feckless cunt", has anyone said anything that has warranted a simple "yeah, fair play"?

Perhaps Trump could learn a thing or two from Al Gore, who gracefully conceded in 2000, amid an historically anomalous vote, ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, for the sake of American democracy.

Where should he bull ahead, and where concede gracefully?Two sets of U-turns are now mooted: he should avoid one and make the other.