Sentence examples for more a concession from inspiring English sources

(The Tubman advocates have agreed to leave the Fulton Mall co-named but that seems more a concession to marketing than to history).

A younger generation see things differently: challenging taboos is less a betrayal of their recent forebears, more a concession to a changing world.

Well, it was more a concession to the wave of pressure caused by other parents capitulating ahead of us.

One of the most visible characteristics was the 35 feet smokestack, the extreme size was more a concession to tradition than of practical advantage on a diesel-powered vessel.

This was more than a concession – this was being invited into Bey's inner sanctum.

Buffalo wasn't a trendy pick this off-season; bringing back Chan Gailey and Fitzpatrick looked more like a concession than a plan.

But, without having read the speech, it is hard to see how this will amount to much more than a concession to nostalgia.

When Bush went to the United Nations in the fall of 2002 and obtained a resolution that got weapons inspectors back into Iraq, it was more as a concession to Powell than as a thought-through Administration policy.

"From the point of view of the president, this is a huge concession," Najam Sethi, editor of Daily Times, a leading newspaper from Lahore, said in a telephone interview, but he added that it was more of a concession to the Supreme Court.

He had given his testimony a week earlier in more private depositions, a concession from the committee staff, so he would not have to stand in direct contrast to his former teammate.

Belgium's justice minister, Koen Geens, promised on Monday to hire more prison officers, a concession that allowed him to reach an agreement with four out of six of the country's prison-officers' unions – the three Flemish unions and one liberal Francophone group.