Within the Likud, the dominant right-wing party, leaders who once advocated holding every inch of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and who for three years argued that Israel could make no concessions because it lacked a Palestinian peace partner, are now debating how quickly to concede how much of that territory.
Ahead of those, the new government must judge how much to concede to Tamil allies without alienating Sinhalese.
Speaking two decades later, Hoffman had to concede "how thin, how reversible, how unsustainable it was".
"To get back into the game, it's heartbreaking to concede how we did, but it was symptomatic of how we played tonight.
Even 21 months later, and even after Matsui's signing with the Yankees was one of the least surprising transactions in baseball, Matsui was still too gentlemanly to concede how obsessed he was with the Yankees.
The Sudanese government, joined by many of its onetime foes who see the court's looming arrest warrant as a mortal threat to the country, is scrambling to determine exactly how much it needs to concede to survive.
The smartest people I talk to in political campaigns — the ones who spend the most time in the company of advanced data and sophisticated experimentation — are also the quickest to concede how little we ultimately know about what it takes to win.
The relentless narrative helps to explain the paralysis of Jews unable to accept what was happening until it was too late to escape, and also to concede how difficult it was for others to decide at what point to risk their own safety by taking a stand.
But she didn't address the real question: If she's not staying in out of purely personal ambition, how does her refusal to concede do anything but harm that list of goals?
Each chapter in this larger story shows us, time and again, what Sotomayor's critics refused to concede: that how we all think, what we see, how we reason and react are directly determined by who we are.
