Sentence examples for hard to cede from inspiring English sources

It is very hard to cede control.

Across Asia, governments find it hard to cede their power to control flows of information.The unwitting instrument of Mr Najib's epiphany was The Economist.

On each of my journeys I tried hard to cede center stage to one or more of the characters I met, and I had the good fortune to meet a number of fascinating characters engaged in dramatic undertakings or investigating oceanic mysteries.

Afterward, Charlie was sweet to his mom, knowing that it had been hard for her to cede control, to be the one giving notes that got ignored.

At home, Rafsanjani's domestic openings were derailed by hard-liners reluctant to cede ideological ground and wary of his outreach to the United States.

To embrace another woman, in Lee's world, is to cede hard-won territory.

It's the lack of control you feel you have at times - and control, I realise, is the one of the hardest things for editors to cede.

The American people should think hard about whether they want to cede the next century — and the next frontier — to a different government with a very different set of values.

The whole thing seems like a bit of a departure for Google, which in the past was always happy to cede the hard work of building hardware to its partners, was content with showing off all the cool things that those partners could do with its software.

But Los Angeles is not about to cede its hard-won position as one of America's true art capitals, so the shows must go on.

It wasn't hard for him to convince Mr. Polsky to cede control of the restaurant; the two are first cousins.