Sentence examples for obtain a concession from inspiring English sources

While on a tour of the Middle East, Harper met an American minister, Edgar J. Banks, and appointed him field director to work on behalf of the University at any site for which he was able to obtain a concession.

Bargaining power refers to "the power to obtain a concession from another party by threatening to impose a cost, or withdraw a benefit, if the party does not grant the concession".

García said the initiative lost momentum when its supporters went to the Communications Ministry and discovered that they'd need another 25 million pesos to obtain a concession license.

Upon their return to Mexico in 1919, the Ehlers sisters obtained a concession to sell Nicholas Power Company cameras and projectors in Mexico City.

In a statement to the media, the Irish Finance Ministry said that last July it had already obtained a concession to extend loan terms up to 30 years.

In 1934 the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), the ownership of which was divided equally between what were then the British Petroleum Company and the Gulf Oil Corporation (of the United States), obtained a concession covering the whole territory except the Neutral Zone.

In 1888, Rhodes obtained a concession for mining rights from King Lobengula of the Ndebele peoples.

The expedition regathered, and after obtaining a concession from the Costa Rican government, returned to the island the following year.

The settlement appeared to be progressing so well that in January 1623, Calvert obtained a concession from King James for the whole of Newfoundland, though the grant was soon reduced to cover only the southeastern Avalon peninsula, owing to competing claims from other English colonists.

Once Moffat, as assistant commissioner for the crown colony of Bechuanaland, had, in February 1888, persuaded Lobengula to sign an exclusive treaty of friendship, Rhodes sent three of his trusted agents to obtain a mining concession based on the treaty.

On a botanical expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa, he obtained a land concession that helped draw the frontiers between British and German territories in that region.