Reading Mahama's concession speech.

Any concession will be interpreted as weakness.

Any thought of concession or compromise is gravely mistaken.

Is it work to get a concession and resell it? '

Ever since, this concession has been resented by other member states.

I said, I'll make a concession. I'll take the husbands along as well.

So President Pastrana abandoned the politics of concession in favor of a firm hand.

When the Maastricht Treaty was negotiated, the Germans considered this provision an important concession.

A very awkward hour passed before he accepted reality and made a gracious concession speech.

Moreno appeared fortunate to escape a red card and the concession of a spot kick.

The DPR agreed to this concession on the condition that the enemy surrender their weapons and ammunition.

Reagan's concession speech emphasized the dangers of nuclear war and the threat posed by the Soviet Union.

In 2007, the Metallurgical Corporation of China won the concession for the Aynak copper deposit in Logar Province.

The elections we originally saw as a concession turned out to be an integral instrument of our victory.

Unlike Rupert's Land to the north and east, however, the territory was not a concession to the company.

This may not seem like much of a concession. But the junta seems to be trying to cause less offense.

In a concession to commonsense, they concede that people may make mistakes and, to that extent, a stimulus may be beneficial.

Even Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has questioned whether these countries debt payment measures represent an exaggerated concession to neo liberal orthodoxy.

This is a concession from your Lord and a kindness. He who transgresses in spite of it shall suffer painful punishment.

In 2011, a group of Indian state and private companies won the concession for the Hajigak iron ore deposit in Bamyan Province.

When this concession failed, Mubarak and the ruling NDP began to work behind the scenes, encouraging their followers to attack protesters and provoke violence.

Not only was this unusual, but the attendant concession of defeat by Goodluck was a new one in a continent saturated by sit tight leaders.

It becomes even more difficult when the complex historical baggage calls for sensitivity and tolerance while the protagonists are determined to see every concession as surrender.

He could, however, smooth over some of the rougher edges of Putin s energy policy a small concession here, a new deal there but only at the fringes.

Although this concession is not yet a done deal, there is increasing acknowledgment that it would give Dublin considerable breathing space to conduct a more effective second referendum campaign.

Turning down or delaying Baltic state membership will be seen as a concession to Russia acting in their favor will be regarded by Moscow as a slap in the face.

Levin knew that farming did not interest his elder brother and that the question was merely a concession, therefore he replied generally as to the sale of wheat and money matters.

In the parliament of 1301, the King was forced to order an assessment of the royal forests, but in 1305 he obtained a papal bull that freed him from this concession.

I foresee a series of interest rate cuts by the Fed, which should not be viewed as a concession to asset markets, but rather as recognition that the real economy needs help.

Typically, the public sector must enter into contractual agreements with private firms not only to build the infrastructure, but also to operate it as a regulated monopoly or on a concession basis.

Since Scotland isn't in the Schengen area now, continued non compliance would be a cheap concession for Brussels to offer up in return for whatever it really wanted out of the Scots.

In 2013, the same minister kept her promise and went to parliament to defend the sale of waste management public enterprises and the sub concession to private companies of water supply systems

And it is no surprise that the new member countries of the EU have brought to Europe fresh historical experience, and with it far less understanding for and tolerance of concession and compromise.

The government plans to develop the area into a 21 story multi purpose complex under a build operate transfer (BOT) concession with Arakawa, a Japanese company, at a project cost of 80 million.

The Ukrainian parliament s endorsement, despite strong international opposition, of autonomy for the pro Russia separatist regions a solution initially proposed by Putin is exactly the kind of concession that is needed to restore peace.

A restructuring of Greece s official debt, despite offering short term benefits, would weaken that framework in the long run by setting a precedent for exceptions, with other eurozone countries, sooner or later, requesting the same concession.

Taking advantage of widespread opposition to amnesty for FARC leaders a concession that would be an essential component of any deal Santos s rivals transformed the first round of the election into a referendum on the negotiations.

A young adjutant, a comrade of Vronsky's, through whom she had her information, who hoped through her influence to obtain a concession, told her that they had finished their affairs and were leaving Petersburg next day.

From Facebook alone, many became certain of the direction the wind would blow, well ahead of President Jonathan s Tuesday evening concession of victory to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and Prof. Attahiru Jega s early Wednesday morning election returns.

So Blair s concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.

Given that such a move would imply that China s claim to the islands may have some legitimacy, Abe s possible concession on this point is no trivial matter it could even mean that he will agree with China to restore the status quo ante.

Sri Lanka's tragedy reminds us how many things can go wrong when old Asian polities seek to establish modern nation states. It becomes even more difficult when the complex historical baggage calls for sensitivity and tolerance while the protagonists are determined to see every concession as surrender.

Allowing Iran to retain some low grade enrichment capacity would be a plausible concession and one that would allow the country s leaders to save face but only if linked to Iran s unfettered disclosure of all nuclear activities to the IAEA and confirmed cessation of any capability that contributes to weaponization.