What is "concedes"

Usage examples of "concedes".

Webster concedes that originally the States existed as severally sovereign states, but contends that by ratifying the constitution they have been made one sovereign political people, state, or nation, and that the General government is a supreme national government, though with a reservation in favor of State rights.

The powers the convention grants or concedes to the United States are powers granted or conceded by the United States to the General government it assembled to organize and establish, which, as it extends over the whole population and territory of the Union, and, as the interests it is charged with relate to all the States in common, or to the people as a whole, is with no great impropriety called the government of the United States, in contradistinction from the State governments, which have each only a local jurisdiction.

Campbell recognizes that mythology originates from a particular stage of human development (which he happily concedes is the childhood of men and women), and then he also defines it as what all stages have in common (namely, his four functions, which are simply a variation on the four quadrants and thus are present at all stages of human development).

One is tempted to say that if even Derrida concedes this, Katz hasn't a chance.

Roszak wants to take, from primals and from infants, the parts of animism that he likes and then jettison the rest (which he concedes are merely "superstitious").

And, indeed, Roszak concedes that the id/Gaia that we are to recontact is actually a lower structure, driven merely by survival instincts.

He concedes that eating is important, but then he remembers his great aunt who was addicted to suet puddings and lived to ninety.

Maurie Plant concedes this danger but emphasises that an athlete of Perec's calibre had to be respected.

Consider the things he concedes, and the curious conclusions he draws from them.

He boldly concedes that prior to the adoption of the constitution, the people of the United States were severally sovereign states, but by the constitution they were made one sovereign political community or people, and that the States, though retaining certain rights, have merged their several sovereignty in the Union.

If it concedes the permission, it must leave the whole electoral people under the preexisting electoral law free to take part in the work of reorganization, and to vote according to their own judgment.