Sentence examples for major concession a from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Chirac also won a major concession: a continuation of the subsidy system.

The nuclear power industry gets one major concession: a tax break that would eliminate the double taxation of money put aside for decommissioning plants.

ATHENS — As Greek lawmakers prepared to vote on a package of new austerity measures, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Wednesday that the country's lenders had agreed to a major concession, a sharp reduction in the sales tax on restaurant meals.

Still, it would be a major concession from a White House that is presumably feeling vindicated by the election.

He abolished direct elections for governors in 2004, during his second term as president, but President Dmitri A. Medvedev pushed a law through Parliament last year to restore them in what was seen as a major concession to a growing political opposition movement.

Most Iranian brides seek a major concession over an extravagant wedding dress or a set of jewelry, but I cut back on nearly everything else to help leverage a bar.

Democrats believe they already made a major concession when they included a provision in the two-month bill that will force the Obama administration to approve or disapprove the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

True, the writers guild was able to wrest a major concession from management — winning a piece of digital revenues — the kind of victory that has largely eluded organized labor in the past few years.

WASHINGTON/KABUL, March 20 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai may have won a major concession from the United States following a deadly shooting spree by a U.S. soldier, with the Obama administration considering curbs on contentious night raids.

Any major concession on such a sensitive internal affair seems especially unlikely during China's once-in-a-decade leadership succession process, now under way.

If Germany backs a compromise, would that be enough for David Cameron to say to the British people that he had won a major concession or would there be a long list of further requests?