Sentence examples for greatest concession from inspiring English sources

The abolition of the claim was the Irish Republic's greatest concession in the current settlement.

But the greatest concession is that after six games Spurrier realizes he can no longer get away with a quarterback who sits in the pocket behind a granite wall of protection and wait for speedy receivers to break free.

Taking service in an ambiguous position with Begum Harouni was the greatest concession she had ever made to her mediocre prospects, and making this concession had only increased her determination to rise, although she had no idea how to go about it.

In the end, however, it was government officials, and not the strikers, who made the greatest concessions.

Since Paul won the Senate seat, it's been the senior senator who has made the greatest concessions to his junior colleague -- whether by becoming a supporter of legalizing industrial hemp or hiring Paul's right-hand man to run his own 2014 reelection campaign.

That would not be a very great concession, it would seem.

Permission to buy one of these -- a great concession from the head of a kosher household -- made my day.

And the unilateral ceasefire was itself without precedent.General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, is now considering an even greater concession.

The one great concession that the Liberal Democrat negotiators screwed out of their Conservative opposite numbers was the AV referendum which has now blown up in their faces.

In an even greater concession to contemporary mores, French bookshops carry works written by Jamie Oliver, a chipper television chef from Britain, of all places.Cookbooks are becoming more common in China, although they are hardly more helpful to the inexperienced.

By Labor Day, Bush had taken to saying that war could wait, but this was hardly a great concession, considering that it would take nearly six months to mobilize and position the forces necessary for the proposed attack.