Sentence examples for tentative concession from inspiring English sources

On the last of these occasions, standing in the East Room of the White House on August 9, 1974, as her husband said farewell to his staff, she managed to avoid the tears that had flooded her eyes during a previous broadcast agony, her husband's tentative concession to John F. Kennedy on Election Night, 1960.

The machinists' union was the last among United's unions to agree to tentative concessions.

The question is whether tentative concessions by those unions are larger than the costs, given that Mr. Gulotta is proposing double-digit raises for all of the officers.

While the government offered tentative concessions early on, it has since carried out a ferocious crackdown, killing hundreds, arresting thousands and besieging four cities. "The decision of the government now is that they decided to fight," Mr. Makhlouf said.

If new elections are held in Israel and there is no peace agreement for Mr. Barak to run on, he must show that after making tentative concessions to the Palestinians, he also won something from the United States.

Just as Syria's Hafez al-Assad demanded that tentative Israeli concessions be the starting point of renewed negotiations, Arafat will insist on the same.

The airline reached a tentative agreement on concessions with its pilots last week, and the leaders of their union approved concessions last night that included pay cuts of 10percentt.

United Airlines said that it had reached tentative agreements on concessions with five labor groups represented by the International Association of Machinists.

Yesterday, American said that it had reached a tentative agreement for concessions from its 16,300 fleet service workers.

On Thursday, American and the Transport Workers Union reached a tentative agreement on concessions for the airline's 16,300 baggage handlers.

The agreement came after union leaders said they had told executives that workers were resisting tentative agreements on concessions reached March 31.