Sentence examples for won a concession from inspiring English sources

This will allow General Musharraf to claim to have won a concession from India.

Iraq won a concession allowing it to spend some oil revenue locally, rather than on imports.

Germany abandoned her long apathy toward the Middle East and won a concession for Turkish railroads.

After a full ban was rejected at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, the student-led Just Tap It initiative won a concession: no bottled water on the meal plan.

He won a concession from Boehner and Cantor this summer that allowed him to craft a bill with more spending than current House rules permit.

Karzai already has won a concession, inked last week with Allen, to take control of U.S.-run prisons in six months, provided his government meets various conditions.

"Their main hope is to win a concession on the 2011 increases to women's state pension age".

The "nice" negotiator aims to gain the target's trust and win a concession, lest the target is stuck with the unappealing offer of the tough negotiator.

Eurosceptic MPs did what they always do: win a concession they pretend is "final" before coming back for more.

While most large corporations are accustomed to negotiating with lawyers, the likelihood of negotiating a beneficial severance package or winning a concession without going to court is much lower at small businesses, lawyers said.

Tsipras did manage to win a concession that the fund should be managed from Greece, not Luxembourg, as envisaged in a German plan, but the rules will be drawn up by Greece's creditors – the troika that Tsipras vowed to throw off, but only succeeded in renaming as "the institutions".