Sentence examples for yield an inch of from inspiring English sources

He would rather sacrifice the health of uninsured children than yield an inch of ideological ground.

"There are no pressures under which we will yield an inch of Kosovo".

On Friday, just hours after the president's son Jean backed down from plans to preside over France's biggest business district, Prime Minister François Fillon vowed to not "yield an inch of territory" in the fight against crime.

The people Washington attracts now tend to be committed activists, who think of themselves as locked in an existential struggle over the fate of the country, and are unwilling to yield an inch of ground.

The man didn't yield an inch of his argument.

An iron discipline meets that tedium head on and does not yield an inch to it.

His statement on September 6 that he "would not yield to Germany an inch of territory nor a single stone of the fortresses" was a piece of oratory that Otto von Bismarck countered, at the Ferrières meeting on September 19, by his declaration that the cession of Alsace-Lorraine was the indispensable condition of peace.

The storm is coming from British Columbia, and could yield as much as an inch of rain.