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    Use "conceding" in a sentence

    conceding example sentences

    conceding


    1. I popped another beer, conceding the fact that I would never be able to keep


    2. I did notice that I got the largest slice of pie for dessert, and this fact was not wasted on Hal, as I saw him doing the mental math, conceding me the larger arc of pie; or was it pi?


    3. Unless America and other Western European nations are willing to level the playing field by conceding a portion of its (civil) liberties and placing national security and (public) safety ahead of the ‖unalienable‖ rights of (private) individuals, the Free World could conceivably wind up with neither!


    4. Conceding the argument that the war in Iraq, which I support by the way, has shifted momentum from the administration‘s domestic agenda, its reluctance to advance meaningful Immigration Reform in the wake of 9/11 has Conservatives and ―Moderates‖, alike, shaking their heads in disbelief


    5. Lowgri dropped what was left of his sword and held his hands up, conceding the duel to Nem


    6. If we always censor our behaviour in front of friends, it"s conceding that it"s only OK for us to be lovers if we pretend we aren"t


    7. Finally conceding, the captain said, “Fine, I shall tell you what I know


    8. "Get that bitch in here and don't bruise her up, you dig punk ass?" Slicky followed his stern commands, conceding to the weapons tremendous power


    9. ” She sighed as if she were conceding a


    10. The 2ème Bureau had allied itself with the Binh Xuyen, gradually conceding to it effective control of the majority of the city of Saigon and of the Cholon District

    11. “That’s two questions,” said Rudolph glumly, conceding a point, “requiring one answer


    12. The Californian shrugged and nodded, as if conceding the point


    13. Credit Rating and seen them conceding


    14. But many old and new political leaders were on Sunday night conceding the previous deal may have been shattered beyond repair


    15. ‘You’re too good a player,’ said Sandhya after conceding the game at 29-14


    16. “Maybe the corporate health sector symbolizes the Goring Syndrome like nothing else; the assorted diagnostic reports sought by the self-serving doctors that rob their patients’ savings would only serve the auxiliary health services; even conceding that the capital involved in setting up a corporate hospital is mind-boggling, begging for returns on investment, that the doctors there allow themselves to turn into con men to trick the sick is in deed sickening; I wonder how these are better than the pimps fleecing the whores; in spite of their daytime black deeds, the fact that they are able to sleep at nights shows that they have self-anesthetized their collective consciences; even as Hippocrates could be turning in his grave, wonder how these fare in hell as and when they reach there


    17. In the end, I gave up, conceding that it was an improvement on recent behaviour even if it caused an atmosphere at times


    18. She probably wouldn’t have handed me something dirty to wash my face with, but still, I hesitated before conceding that I really didn’t care


    19. The knight nodded, conceding to her point


    20. I'd expected that she would have been more conceding, that the way this world had affected everyone in it, including me, was something she would have to get used to; adjust her little moral world for, not the other way around

    21. He watched Flint's lip curl a little and then a conceding nod with the frown


    22. Not much love was lost between her and Rhea but it was either that or conceding that her son was a cuckold pure and simple


    23. depended on it, conceding one day it just might, on the second night of his training, this


    24. Conceding this was the final chance for Nole and Bane to go back home, he


    25. Conceding these folk were


    26. I nodded conceding that he had a point there


    27. Conceding that such a survival is contrary to the analogy of death in all other animated beings around us; that it is contrary to the original intention of God in the curse of death threatened at first to Adam in paradise; nay, even maintaining with Delitzsch that the survival of the soul or spirit in death is of the nature of a miraculous or abnormal provision, arising out of the economy of redemption, with a view to future resurrection; they nevertheless hold that it is impossible by fair means to eliminate the idea of a surviving soul from the Bible


    28. Wopsle, conceding his fin with a gracious dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody danced a hornpipe; and from that corner, surveying the public with a discontented eye, became aware of me


    29. She nodded, conceding the point


    30. Amy was conceding Carthage, finally forgiving me for moving back here

    31. Keeper David James (UK) played 170 games without conceding a goal playing for Liverpool, Aston Villa, West Ham, Manchester City and Portsmouth from 16 August 1992 to 1 March 2010


    32. Even conceding GH’s point that investors are increasingly focused on stocks for the long run and will manage to push the Dow up past 36,000, one has to ask just how free of risk stocks would be at that point


    33. Staggering or layering options throughout different contract months not only provides diversification but also allows an investor to experience option expirations nearly every month (conceding, of course, that she will have to cover a few of them)


    34. To yield to that pressure, or to any thing which should foster, in this country, the idea that it was an effectual weapon of hostility, was nothing more than conceding that she was dependent upon us


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    Synonyms for "conceding"

    conceding concession yielding affirmation confirmation corroboration admitting acceptance accession acknowledgment

    "conceding" definitions

    the act of conceding or yielding