Sentence examples for grudgingly recognised from inspiring English sources

It grudgingly recognised Bangladesh as an independent country only after the assassination of the country's first prime minister, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 1975.

As the new PM he had the nation in his palm, a coalition base relieved that the car was no longer heading for the cliff while progressive voters grudgingly recognised that overnight Australia had become a less conservative place.

Belgium, which had hoped to either annex Luxembourg or force it into personal union, grudgingly recognised Charlotte on 13 February.

These young offenders – albeit grudgingly – recognise the value of what they are doing.

More now accept that America is even stronger.While China may grudgingly recognise this, it could still find itself confronting America over an increasingly independence-minded Taiwan.

That said, a growing number of British officers grudgingly recognise that America is learning the lessons of irregular warfare, drawn mainly from British colonial experience, better than the modern British army.After much trial and error, the allies more or less agree on the tenets of counter-insurgency.

But, significantly, there are signs that Tunisian politics are maturing: today's al-Nahda seems far from the much more conservative and illiberal Islamist movement of the 1980s, and secular parties are grudgingly recognising that their presence on the political scene is legitimate.

However grudgingly, though, almost everyone recognised his ability.

Coalminers, engine drivers, shipbuilders and the like had a heroic resonance which was recognised – sometimes grudgingly – throughout British society.

The kids, I had to grudgingly acknowledge, were all right.

After all, the Palestinians claim self-servingly, no one asked Israel's ruling Likud party, led by Binyamin Netanyahu, to accept a two-state settlement as a condition for being internationally recognised when it took power; after a few months he, but not his party, grudgingly did so.