How To Use Concession In A Sentence

Well, the good news is a few weeks ago they were talking about it being the main source of law, so there has been some concession there, which the Iraqi women leaders have been fighting for.
But people don't know the background of arguments and backbiting that has been going on over the state of the equipment and their refusal to give us concession prices.
The website, however, says that booking on payment of concessional fare by senior citizens aged above 60 years could be done through it.
You want to hit the concession stand before the game starts!
Just as his concessions were being broadcast, loyal contingents rolled into Saigon.

One solution is for the government to grant an operating concession for a particular project to the private sector.
As the ballot result was due, the company offered to scrap Saturday working for subs and reporters as a concession.
Tickets are priced at E10 with concessions at E5.
The rise was to fund concessionary bus fares, compulsory waste recycling, increased National Insurance, extra planning staff and pay rises, he explained.
As a great concession, the bursar offered us a room in a hostel for graduate students.
Ah well, at least I can get a concession ticket now, thanks to my lowly student status.
This was a concession to the Magyars at the expense of other peoples within the borders of the Dual Monarchy.
Open daily; admission ￡1.10 with concessions for children and OAPs.
The solution to Quebec's uncertain status is not more concessions, Canada has made quite enough of those, but an enhanced level of Canadian political leadership and governance. Post-Election Prospects in Canada
The one concession to modernity is a notice at the bottom of the page which says that items in bold print are organic and certified by the Soil Association.
I am sorry that you should think me rash, if the idea of rashness is unpleasant to you -- I will make any other concession in reason rather than quarrel with you. Taquisara
The King made major concessions to end the confrontation with his people.
Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
The Minister gave a strong hint that the government were thinking of introducing tax concessions for mothers.
Compromises and concessions need to be reached on both sides, so that whatever choices are made about family and career are mutually acceptable and agreeable.
In 1986, the Government won a concession for Herdwicks to receive 70 percent of the premium before lambing.
Hosts David Asman and Liz Claman practically crowned the mayor an economic genius after he told them he's asking for wage concessions from labor groups, combining departments and trying to "disintermediate" bureaucracies. SFGate: Top News Stories
The agonizing dispute between revelation and explanation required mutual concessions by both reason and faith.
We made concessions for the sake of peace.
A row of tractor tires, painted white and planted with petunias, was the sole concession to aesthetics. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
With the favorable price, the outstanding quality, we will make a concession to every customer.
Old Labour leader George, torn apart by the contradictions that have led to this riot, suddenly thinks he sees who is to blame, and drops his trimming and concession-making approach.
There are now hundreds of logging concessions in the region.
Every generous inch a military man, Groves made important concessions to Oppenheimer in the interest of getting the job done.
Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
Vassilev said that the Bourgas Airport employees would be re-employed by the concessionaire and a group labour contract would be negotiated and signed with a year.
The fact that he was willing to do damage to the country with useless concessions to a party that has proven itself a moral and intellectual failure to them on his side was extremely disturbing, and the fact that he succeeded not at all in unsurprising. Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias on Maddow
You might conceivably nip out to the concessions stand, visit the loo and still come back to the same scene.
One of the audits was standard procedure (as a concessionaire to the US Forest Service, audits are sometimes required on certain contracts) and one was based on employee complaints. Coyote Blog » Labor Law
But the bottom line, the reason why this is major news is you now have a U.S. president really trying to prod both sides to make what he called painful political concessions, to make difficult choices, and putting, basically, a deadline on it. CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2008
Now, whether it is a concession or whether it is self-evident, it is obvious people relied upon gas.
He's energizing his opponents and driving away moderates in droves because he is a right wing ideologue who refuses to make even the slightest concession to achieve consensus.
My only concession to traditional or ‘Outdated’ methods of Marathon preparations was to cox rather than row.
However, they do not make any concessions to the hard work it takes to be in the music industry.
Critics of the Yalta agreements tend to forget that the Russian, also, made substantial concessions.
A buyer may come to expect concessions from a seller in return for purchasing.
Two years of home sellouts and the increased concession sales alone could be worth as much as $15 million.
I am prepared to make some concession on minor details, but I cannot compromise on fundamentals.
In 2007 tax concessions for commuters will be slashed and the tax-free allowance for both married and single persons will be cut.
Everywhere, workforces are played off against one another and blackmailed into making concessions with the threat that production will be moved.
Substantial concessional financing is required to cover the additional costs and risks of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Technology transfer and institutional strengthening is also needed.
It exploited fears that the accord would collapse to extract concessions previously denied it.
A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation.
But Hashimoto has also led resistance to economic changes and concessions urged by the Clinton administration.
Digital phone concessionaires are quarrelling about whose system is better.
Some make a greater concession; they admit that disagreeable or unhealthy work -- such as sewerage -- could be paid for at a higher rate than agreeable work. The Conquest of Bread
Nayarit Gold controls more than 102,000-hectares of mining concessions -- collectively called the Orion Project -- in the Sierra Madre Occidental, the range that extends from Arizona in the United States down into western Mexico (west of the Sierra Madre Oriental). Asian Investors Hunting for Gold in Toronto
He made no concessions to fashion.
The concession should not be extended to SADC citizens as this would open a loophole for illegal aliens.
But such concessions would undermine the very principles on which the case for tax reform is based.
From the flow of the main throughways to the definition and placement of internal landmarks, such as the concession villages, emphasis was placed on visual connectivity.
This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
As President Boris Yeltsin has lost popularity, he has made concessions to nationalist views.
Spelthorne Borough Council is having to dig deep into its coffers to help finance a county-wide concessionary bus scheme, after Surrey County Council withdrew its support.
Thus, I cannot fathom Mr. Halevi's suggestion that the Israelis answer this repudiation of their most basic national rights with still more unilateral concessions, in the form of an open-ended freeze on construction in the disputed territories. Maybe the Right Middle East Term Is 'Peace For Land'
Diffuse reciprocity can take many forms, including concessions and derogations, or going out on a limb to persuade the capital for changes or a compromise.
A slight modification to the final scene adds the only major concession to modern values to the play with nod to post-feminist ideals, but works pleasingly well.
Frances Kelly says that inch by inch, the access lobby groups have demanded and received concessions, particularly in New South Wales.
In Yellowstone, we turned a large number of campground operations over to a concessionaire and plowed the income back into campground facilities.
This may stem from the Roman Catholic view, where intimacy, even within the context of marriage, is considered a concession to base instincts, while sacred priests and nuns are celibate.
The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike.
Housing loans, car loans and education loans would also be sanctioned at huge concessions in interest rates and hassle-free documentation.
The concession to history often consists of a few new buildings with upturned eaves and garishly painted timber slapped on concrete facades.
China -- Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, munitions or warships, wireless plants, and other property (except diplomatic) in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow and in other Chinese territory except Kiaochow, and agrees to return to China at her own expense all the astronomical instruments seized in 1901. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
Government was compelled to cancel the concession, the President himself denouncing the action of the concessionnaire as fraudulent. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs
A divided union movement created chronically unstable labor relations, to which ship owners responded by making generous concessions.
Under the previous administration, rich landowners were given generous tax concessions.
Entry is £7 for adults with reductions for children and concessions.
President Clinton once complained privately that the Chinese leaders "pocketed" concessions instead of "crediting" them. Aspirational Economics 101
Likewise, a sworn statement with the mining concession applicant's advanced commitment shall be submitted.
The concession will not therefore normally apply to rights already granted under an approved employee share scheme.
That was quite a concession, given that they wanted the intent of the erroneous scrivener to prevail in interpretation.
This article is a densely argued piece with few concessions to the lay reader.
After meeting Hitler in May 1941 he and the German ambassador, Otto Abetz, initialled the Paris protocols which gave the Germans significant military concessions in Africa and the Middle East.
If Turkish leaders thought the mere idea of joining the EU was “silly”, why did they make so many concessions in their national laws to the acquis communautaire? Matthew Yglesias » A Special Relationship
The fee is £37 with concessionary rates available.
Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
It is austerely modernist, making little concession to either plot or character, more like a fictive sculpture than a story, an obsessively repeated series of patterns.
We made concessions for the sake of peace.
Such concessions would represent setbacks for the neo-conservative unilateralism that looked so dominant only a few months ago.
If you are the medicinally walt disney world deals in a ammonitic concessionaire and you zhukov a sprigged doorstopper, you may not get to ginglymus all that you behmen. Rational Review
They were empowered to raise taxes, grant mineral and land concessions and issue currency.
The knock-on effect is that prime rents are down 10 per cent year on year and the market remains a good one for tenants, who continue to benefit from rent-free periods, break clauses and other concessions.
The 50p concessionary bus fare will come into from Sunday, February 27.
I enjoy voluntary work with hundreds of other retired people who would be unable to do so without the concessionary bus fare.
It hasn't made any concessions to unionism or unionists.
This means concessions to rangatiratanga that look like racial preference to some.
It said that, under a consortium name of Tirta Ciparen Permai, its total investment during the 25 year concession would amount to over 250 million euros.
Ticket prices, including the concessions, include an invitation to supper in the old school opposite the church after the concert.
The Washington rumour mill suggests that the president secured his narrow majority only by promising all sorts of concessions.
The 1918 concession was clearly predicated on there being sufficient Catholic children to fill school rolls.
It has 136 stand-alone stores, and four concessions within Scottish Power outlets.
This will probably force the new country to accept loans, albeit at concessional rates.
The new season will also bring admission charge to Museum of Flight, ￡2 for adults and ￡1 children and concessions.
Substantial concessional financing is required to cover the additional costs and risks of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Technology transfer and institutional strengthening is also needed.
Hague also attacked the alternative vote system, a referendum on which was a key concession from the Tories to the Lib Dems when they formed their coalition in May. William Hague attacks Ed Miliband's record on the economy
Third parties are unlikely to be able to challenge concessions granted to a taxpayer.
The concessionaire is a joint venture involving ARAMARK, the Phillies and World Wide Concessions. Undefined
The current process is not achieving significant progress, but minor concessions calculated to win more time.
That was a bit of intelligence we ferreted out, not by their confessions or concessions, but by simple default: late in the afternoon we saw them naked on the beach, at least bold if not bronzed. Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
The government portrays the new laws on 'ordinary' autonomy as a large concession to all the resource-rich provinces which are showing secessionist symptoms.
Weekend reports suggested that one concession involved raising the threshold at which repayment would begin from £15,000 to £20,000.
The Manpower Northern Electricity Consortium which was awarded the contract to electrify the area was currently having negotiations with Government to give the concessions.
The proposal springs from complaints to MPs and councillors from people judged ineligible for the concession.
He warns Walsingham against yielding to the wishes of "townsmen" at such a critical juncture, for they would look for the like concession at other times. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
De concessione demiss, Edwardo Ditchfield et aliis. Notes on the State of Virginia
The sheriff said the trailer, which he described as a concession trailer, was stolen. AugustaChronicle.com
Muzaffar Salman/Associated Press The new protests, like this one at the Omayyad Mosque, come a day after President Assad's government announced concessions, including a raise for public workers, a reconsideration of an emergency law in place for nearly five decades and more freedom for news media. Unsatisfied in Syria
That was a little hard to believe given that, at the time Lindeberg said this, she was wearing a sleeveless second-skin dress in black silk georgette, its hem a riot of vibrating tassels, its single concession to mumsiness an elasticized waist. Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures
The union says New York-based Verizon Communication Inc. is seeking $20,000 per worker in annual concessions, and workers bristle that their jobs are being characterized as unprofitable when, they say, their work help build the company's lucrative, non-union wireless business. FOXNews.com
It's this return of former colonial powers to the Arab world to reclaim oil concessions in Libya, following the occupation of Iraq, that has led Gamal Abdel Nasser's former confidant Mohamed Heikal to talk recently of the threat of an effective new "Sykes-Picot agreement" – the carve-up between Britain and France after the first world war – and a redivision of spoils in the region. Egypt has halted the drive to derail the Arab revolution | Seumas Milne
This bleak, violent, but moving film, based on a true-life case of homophobic murder in America's mid-west, carried a strongly feminist message and made no concessions to the multiplex audience.
In some cases, such as ethnic separatist movements, straightforward concessions may in principle remove the cause of violence.
More immediately, he could have demanded visible concessions from the President benefiting from his hospitality last week.
The Minister gave a strong hint that the government were thinking of introducing tax concessions for mothers.
He pays me a sidewise glance, incredulous brows knitting an ambiguity, finding it almost unsporting to fold and venture a smile of concession.
On the other, the book makes no concession to ways in which authorial intent might be shaped or scuttled by external factors.
On the agenda will be the recent council tax increases and proposed reductions in travel concessions.
Substantial concessional financing is required to cover the additional costs and risks of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Technology transfer and institutional strengthening is also needed.
Engineering and management consultant Mott MacDonald, is partially interested in obtaining a concession for the two airports, Laden said.
He hoped to unnerve Kennedy and force him into concessions.
It may affect the primary, substantial reason or motive of the grant, or constitute merely a secondary or impellent cause of the concession. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Thus a privileged land-tenure was created -- bookland; the rules as to the succession of kinsmen were set at nought by concession of testamentary power and confirmations of grants and wills; special exemptions from the jurisdiction of the hundreds and special privileges as to levying fines were conferred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
We served hamburgers and hot dogs, we were grilling them around the clock, and had a cold drink concession.
Several local governments started issuing forest concession licenses since the implementation of regional autonomy last year as part of efforts to boost their revenues.
As we walked through one forest concession to check seedling survival, Ortiz described his findings in terms of the ‘agouti shadow’: the outline of how far an agouti disperses an individual tree's pods and the nuts inside.
Bial is awaiting the Centre's guidelines relating to commercial activities and ground handling before calling bids for concessionaires on airport land.
It is inevitable, however, that the company will use the threat of plant closings to whipsaw workers in different factories to accept further concessions in wages and working conditions.
Nasi said properly managed logging concessions can help to preserve rain forest biodiversity in other areas.
That's why the Government was forced to make tax concessions in the Budget, piddling though they were.
These include the devising of appropriate clauses to ensure that safari-hunting concessionaires were made to deliver on various undertakings made in concession agreements.
Land grants were obtainable from the Spanish Government by proving priority of claim, but the concession was only given after wearisome delay, and sometimes it took years to obtain the title-deeds. The Philippine Islands
Educational concessions, subsidies and promotions as well as government jobs are to be restricted to those who accept the small family norm.
The concessionaire will be entitled to toll the highway in compliance with the Roads Act.
The council has already made significant concessions in response to the trade unions' original proposals.
Pot of lazy garlic and some frozen chopped onions (my only concessions to tetraplegia). Times, Sunday Times
The scientific realist, though no Kantian, may be ready, by way of making his maximum concession, with a reply modelled on Kant's combination of empirical realism with transcendental idealism.
Meanwhile, both groups are working under concessionary labor contracts struck early in the past decade, after the 2001 terrorist attacks sunk the industry into financial distress. US Airways Pilots Deny Illegal Job Action Under Way
This contrasts so markedly with the niggardly travel concessions in this city and the miserable potential offer for the possible future by the miserly Chancellor of the Exchequer.
And when this policy seemed in danger of leading to regression as a result of electoral defeat, the commit ment to electoral (hence revisionist) activism was characterized as a buttress to the established theory of societal breakdown rather than as a major concession to revisionist ideology. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Men and women over the age of 60 are entitled to off-peak concessionary travel on buses and trains throughout West Yorkshire through Metro's Senior Permit scheme.
Logging concessions are stimulated by the wrong incentives: it is more lucrative to clear forestland for plantations than to plant on open and unproductive land.
Asked a little later if the concessionaire would be expected to work with the restaurant union, she indicated that was the case. Tavern Draws Interest on Tour
Secretary Bittencourt told reporters the government is planning concessions for airports in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte. Brazil Privatizes Airports, Raising $14 Billion
Tickets purchased prior to the day of the match are priced at a cut price 10 for adults and 2 for concessions, but prices on the day of the game will be normal matchday prices, subject to availability.
That goes some way to strengthening my argument that it is a concessionary tax rate.
The nature of the ground makes this road a good fair-weather one, and as the Russian company has rented it from the Persian concessionnaire, we may expect to hear of considerable improvements, so as to encourage an increase of the Persia Revisited
Since education is a matter of national interest, the bus operators also should bear a part of the social cost of students' concession.
His presence at the funeral was the one concession he'd make to public opinion. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
The Amir is strongly motivated by the Pashtoon concept of "izzat" (self-respect) and tends to look upon any suggestion of concessions to international opinion as an affront to his "izzat". IntelliBriefs
The creation of the ephori was a sort of compromise measure, a concession to appease the people of Sparta, and, as an extension of the elective franchise, was most deplorable in its results. Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
And all regard compromise and concession, at least over matters of principle, as weakness, because they are.
Allowing EnCap to substitute 'recyclables' for dredge would mean a huge economic windfall for EnCap, less environmental benefit, and could result in criticism due to the concessions DEP made," Brand wrote. Development: A cautionary tale
'Better Than Therapy', a fascinating 52-minute documentary on the Police reunion, is included with the concert and it dramatically illustrates the group dynamics and hard-won concessions that came into play before the regrouping was a go. Certifiable (DVD)
In an attempt to pacify the Irish, the British establishment made a number of concessions aimed at enabling tenant farmers to become the owners of the land they so diligently tilled.
Fourteen dollars, for two coffees and two mingy blondies, which he paid without flinching, even leaving the change from his twenty in the concessionaire's plastic cup.
You get along well with others because you don't make undue demands and your willingness to compromise often brings the concessions you want.
Anyhow, Billie's visiting with her father, and I'm standing alone at the concession stand, buying my butterless corn. Postcards From The Edge Of The Galaxy
Given the extent of this hostility to the creation of ‘fatherless’ children, some concession was needed in order to neutralise parliamentary opposition to the bill.
With such sartorial concessions not available any longer, men of the new millennium need to refer to good bespoke tailors or salesmen retailers to find out how long the tie should hang.
The Chancellor clearly resents these concessions and believes that this untaxed tax is rightly his, if only he could find a way to collect it.
Trimble, like Adams and McGuinness, is caught between the demands for internal unity and making concessions to traditional enemies.
they won all the concessions they asked for
It is to be noted moreover that the word indult, employed in a less restricted sense, is synonymous with privilege, grace, favor, concession, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
He publicly praised the perestroika and glasnost policy but confidentially criticised ‘unacceptable concessions’ and ‘power surrender’.
We are willing to make any concessions necessary to this end .
Debenhams does not have any of the concessions within the store which Allders has.
And a strike, under certain provocation, may extend as far as did the general strike in Belgium a few years since, when practically the entire wage-earning population stopped work in order to force political concessions from the property-owning classes. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
As the railway network expanded, the company secured concessions for kiosks to sell newspapers and periodicals at principal stations from most railway companies.
The first and traditional conception of the company might be labelled the fiction/concession theory.
The British were not prepared to make any concessions .
With the favorable price, the outstanding quality, we make a concession to every customer.
He ordered that short-lived meeting of the states-general about which we have no information left us, save that it voted the principle that "no talliage could be imposed on the people if urgent necessity or evident utility should not require it, and unless by concession of the Estates. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
For sometimes men put forward the universal premiss, but do not posit the premiss which is contained in it, either in writing or in discussion: or men put forward the premisses of the principal syllogism, but omit those through which they are inferred, and invite the concession of others to no purpose. Prior Analytics
Some concession to modernity is apparent in both the kitchen and the adjoining conservatory cum breakfast room.
Under the public distribution scheme, it then transports, again with price concessions, food across this region.
Once again the offence establishes a wholly objective standard, with no concession to those who are merely learning to drive.
The Minister gave a strong hint that the government were thinking of introducing tax concessions for mothers.
It is encouraging that we have gained some concessions, but more are needed, such as a joint committee and amendment of key words in the bill.
He took off his jacket as a concession to the heat.
Control Union Certification and the BSI Group found that less than 2% of PT Smart's concession areas were planted on peatland exceeding three meters in depth and they "could not find evidence" of burning. Palm Oil Firm Rebuts Greenpeace Claim
In the month following the uprising, the political opposition wrung more concessions from the oppressive regime than they had in the previous 50 years.
Tickets €10 and €6 concession are available from the Cathedral Shop.
The pressure group has won a number of concessions on environmental policy.
He's not making a concession to Wall Street; he's just being realistic.
Because his family had a key to the arena as the operators of the concessions stand, Hamhuis on some nights would drill pucks around the old hangar until 3 in the morning.
Also include the $1.2 million capital investment of the Exhibition Stadium concessionnaire, V.S. Services of Toronto, for renovation and equipment. TorontoMajor League Baseball for a Major League City
After lunch - I was eating ravenously still - I made a concession to weakness and pain and had a lie-down. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Gore called Bush on the telephone, wished him well and said he would make his way to a public auditorium to deliver a concession speech.
Turf Catering also operates the concession stands at Keeneland Race Course
The concession also applies to members of the armed services on production of a warrant card.
The MPA submission included a considerable financial commitment by the state and concessions from longshoremen and other port users.
Elsewhere in the article an anonymous diplomat says the U.S. has a newfound willingness to negotiate with insurgent groups, a risky but potentially fruitful concession.
Trade concessions were hard won.
Tariff quota concessions will be implemented according to the date specified in the "implementation" column.

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