While it may be conceded that the matter is not free from doubt, nevertheless our re-examination has not led us to change our former views.
While it may be conceded that, generally speaking, among the inalienable rights of the citizen is that of the liberty of contract, yet such liberty is not absolute and universal.
But for many years, while even critics were conceding that subway and bus service was getting much better, New York City Transit provided riders with almost no information on its reliability.
While the right to classify was conceded, it was said that such classification must be based upon some difference bearing a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is attempted; that no mere arbitrary selection can ever be justified by calling it classification.
While it is nice that they are beginning to concede the importance of lipids, this has every appearance of a desperate attempt to save a totally untenable hypothesis from fatal criticism, rather than a well-thought out theory.
But while, in some notional way, it was thus conceded that poetry might be anti-semitic, it seemed unthinkable that this could be true of Eliot's work.
In January, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conceded that while it was possible to convert many more cars to natural gas, the infrastructure to fuel them was lagging.
■ In an interview with the Observer, Burnham conceded that while it was "possible" for Corbyn to win the 2020 election, the party would have a much better chance with him.
He also conceded that while it was "hard to back a Labor guy" he had no trouble placing his support behind Murray, whom he regards as a friend.
Forcefully, Merchant accused Jolly of ignoring the sport, conceding that while it is no longer mainstream, it still throws up super-fights worthy of more than the passing attention of America's most distinguished newspaper.
The report also lists a number of "archaic prerogative powers", while conceding that "it is unclear whether some of these... continue to exist".
