Sentence examples for powers conceded from inspiring English sources

The headline across the top half of Iran's conservative newspaper Vatan Emrooz summed up a year of arduous diplomacy: "Nothing!" Iran and the world's six major powers conceded on Monday that they had failed to meet a second deadline on terms to insure that Tehran's advanced nuclear capacity cannot produce a bomb.

In his testimony before Congress, Mr. Powers conceded that the interview with Ken Lay conducted for his investigation had not been transcribed and that any notes from it had been discarded.

The link made by Ms. Powers between her experience and the death of Sandra Bland, has understandably outraged many New Zealanders who normally, as Ms. Powers concedes, "are widely considered to be friendly and accommodating".

Power concedes nothing – until it is forced to do so.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand," Frederick Douglass famously said.

Don't think for a minute that power concedes.

"Don't think for a minute that power concedes," Obama is fond of saying.

In the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand.

"Like Frederick Douglass said, 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.' " The influence and staying power of Occupy Wall Street are undeniable: similar movements have sprouted around the world, as the original group enters its fifth week in the financial district.

The day's speakers included Ayanna Muhammad, an articulate, crowd-stirring, 11-year-old ("Power concedes nothing without demand!") and Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's former Sandinista president ("You are giving an example to the world").

The difference between the focussed, agenda-driven campaign fought by the environmentalists and the free-form, leaderless one waged by the Occupiers, the historian Michael Kazin says, is that the environmentalists grasped the famous point made by Dr. King's political forebear, Frederick Douglass: "Power concedes nothing without a demand.