It's a modest concession for traditionalists who think BBC1 and BBC2 should be mixed-genre channels.
Give way graciously and my modest concession is seized on as an excuse by others.
When either of those presidents visited the country, China often made a modest concession on human rights as well.
While not a significant admission of liability, it showed that the S.E.C. could wield its authority to extract at least a modest concession in a settlement.
To make this step palatable to the Russian public, he intended to couple the announcement with a modest concession to constitutionalist aspirations.
But in a modest concession, they agreed to hold off on a vote to impose new sanctions on Iran until after talks in Geneva later this week.
AFTER years of postponing the inevitable, the Venezuelan government made a modest concession to economic reality on February 8th by cutting the price of the national currency, formally known as the "strong" bolívar, by 32%.
And she becomes a one-woman girl group in "Say You're Sorry," a breakup song demanding exactly that modest concession, and in "Not Alone," a study in separation anxiety.
Yet, alongside winning greater influence over the implementation of the new taxes, he extracted a modest concession when Osborne increased Holyrood borrowing powers up to £2.7bn by 2015, more than the original proposal.
This response has had some success in keeping up minority enrollments, but at the cost of an even more serious compromise of academic standards than the relatively modest concession represented by affirmative action itself.
Yet any benefit that might have accrued from making the decision before the last Premier League meeting has now been frittered away amid the impression that they have been dragged kicking and screaming to even this modest concession.
