Sentence examples for pressured to concede from inspiring English sources

Even before Mr. Bush spoke tonight, his aides and supporters had begun an effort, also clear in his comments, to create a public climate in which Mr. Gore would feel pressured to concede.

According to Simpson's May 2007 affidavit, Siegelman was pressured to concede the 2002 election because the Riley camp threatened to make public a set of photographs of one of Siegelman's supporters planting Riley campaign signs at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

But as the election approaches, Tony Blair's government may find itself under a lot of pressure to concede.

Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller faced pressure to concede defeat as officials began a final tally of ballots from an election Monday praised by international observers as "professional and transparent".

If Vice President Gore fails to overtake Governor Bush by the current vote-counting deadline of Sunday afternoon, he will face considerable pressure to concede the election in any event.

Our expectation is that the candidate who loses that count will face an irresistible public pressure to concede before the matter has to be decided on a party-line vote by Congress.

If the state of Florida really does manage to establish an official count, then the loser whether it is George W. Bush or Al Gore is likely to come under intense public pressure to concede, and so to pull this year's election back from the political twilight zone.

If English voters start demanding Scottish-style finance for students and the Lib Dems and Tories are offering it, Tony Blair will be under a lot of pressure to concede, not least from his own back-benchers who were never keen on tuition fees in the first place.

She is also a tough bargainer and has refused to kow-tow to her alliance partners - once the Hindu nationalist BJP, now the left-of-centre Congress party - and has resisted pressure to concede more in seat-sharing arrangements during elections.

Stacey Abrams is Facing Intense Pressure to Concede.

The 41-year-old former congresswoman, who was also her father's first lady in the 1990s, has so far resisted pressure to concede defeat.