Subject of a loser's postelection speech

Usage examples of concession.

He gave out a little groan, his one concession to the pain that racked him, but he kept going, step by step, meter by meter.

When the allies of Rome claimed an equal share of honors and privileges, the senate indeed preferred the chance of arms to an ignominious concession.

No doubt the Communard press is making great ado about that concession, to whip up public sentiment once more against the Republican government.

But the rashness of these concessions has encouraged a milder sentiment of those of the Docetes, who taught, not that Christ was a phantom, but that he was clothed with an impassible and incorruptible body.

On the other hand, Eck made some concessions, mostly verbal, about the doctrine of justification and other points.

The sisters did not spare an inch where Estral would have allowed a concession.

The Gora give them a few concessions and grab off the secretion - the most precious thing they have.

Concession was always a demand, never an offer, at this stage: another rule to prevent irresponsible players from tying up the grids when they had no intention of playing a Game.

Even as he wrote mobs spurred on by radical agitators overran and looted the British Concessions at Hankow and at Kiukang farther down the river.

In their first yielding of territory since the Opium Wars, the British negotiated with Eugene Chen the relinquishment of the Hankow and Kiukang Concessions while diehards thundered red-faced in their clubs and the Empire quivered.

When she and Midalis had announced their plans for this diversion to Pireth Dancard, the centaur, in particular, had howled in outrage, and had kept on howling until he got concessions from the pair that they would use all precautions here.

If you grant us this concession we in turn will put you in possession of a magnificent idea.

To forge some kind of order in the Lowers by granting concessions to men like Fat Wong.

The small force of garrison troops Lagoas maintained in Mizpah paraded across it in uniform tunics and kilts - with heavy wool leggings beneath the kilts as a concession to the climate.

The hunter had flown them out from there in his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron to this vast, remote hunting concession near the Mozambican border that he chartered from the Zimbabwean government.