Strong words were spoken, and in the end, the Red Cross yielded to the argument that our needs were still unmet and that they had resources that had been donated to help us.
But as Israel faces diplomatic isolation over its war in Gaza a year ago, it has decided to yield to the American argument, at least in part.
But the military contended that the villages would be the main beneficiaries of the highway, and the court yielded to that argument, saying occupied land could be developed for the benefit of those living there, not for the occupiers.
In the end, the Argument from Experience might have to yield to the Doxastic Practice Approach.
This is no time to yield the arguments about international justice to the pessimists.
The moral debate over welfare could soon yield to yet another argument over competence.
But in the end, in the name of consensus, the discontented yielded to an argument that it would be unfair to shift the ground beneath officials (and their constituents) who understood in the last election that three terms would be possible.
Working with only partial knowledge of the reality on the ground, the United States feebly yielded to false arguments and stalling tactics that allowed a massacre in progress to proceed.
In a now famous showdown dinner at Mr. Blair's corner hangout, a fashionably minimalist restaurant called Granita in Islington, the neighborhood that is to London what the Upper West Side is to New York, Mr. Brown yielded to arguments that the younger man's public appeal in an era of sound-bite campaigns held more promise for a Labor victory than his candidacy would.
"But as we move into 1991 the uncertainty in the Middle East and the Soviet Union adds to the arguments that the yield curve will steepen". That process is already under way.
Some go so far as to say that we are now less religious and more secular than in earlier times, which is easy to say yet less easy to prove: both terms -- the "religious" and the "secular" -- yield to interpretations that support whatever argument one chooses to make.
