Sentence examples for meaningless Concession from inspiring English sources

Others have been outraged at a minuscule and practically meaningless concession – some Saudi commentators apparently wondered if the ruling was an April fool's joke.

So according to Kimberly Elliott of the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank in Washington, DC, the developing countries had won a modest but not meaningless concession from the world's most powerful country.

Microsoft's Meaningless Concession.

So watch for Ryan to tout some meaningless concession Trump has made tomorrow (such as the official party platform document), only to be contradicted within days by Trump's insistence that he's going to chart his own policy course, no matter what Ryan thinks.

Baghdad could continue dribbling out meaningless concessions such as yesterday's laughable decree that the development of weapons of mass destruction is now prohibited in Iraq.

Rouhani's strategy, he said, was to "smile a lot because smiling never hurts; pay lip-service to peace, democracy and tolerance; offer meaningless concessions in exchange for lifting sanctions; ensure Iran retains sufficient nuclear material and infrastructure to race to the bomb at a time that it chooses".

And, indeed, the architecture of this part of Brussels, especially when seen on a grey, drizzly day, with David Cameron banging on in the background – sorry, I mean, using all the eloquence at his command trying to extract meaningless concessions in order to bolster his campaign to keep the UK in Europe –  is not the kind of mise-en-scène one would expect to give rise to carnal thoughts.

A reduction from 13 years to seven years for the length of Cameron's benefits "emergency brake" and some similar meaningless "concessions" from original negotiating positions that allowed them to go home and announce that they broke the spirit of the British oppressors.

For him the commercially released album is effectively meaningless, a concession to the record label and that old albatross, the need for revenue.

But the absence of proper roads makes the concession meaningless.

If the new law ends up rendering the CPE meaningless, with no concessions extracted from the labour movement in return, it will hardly amount to a convincing demonstration of his reformist credentials.