Synonym: admit, allow, confess, grant. Similar words: convinced, concept, concern, concert, conceive, conception, concerning, concentrate. Meaning: [kən'siːd] v. 1. admit, make a clean breast of 2. be willing to concede 3. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another 4. acknowledge defeat.
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91 It was the only time I ever heard Murrow privately concede that the fear with which McCarthyism was poisoning the soul of the nation had penetrated his soul as well.
92 But they concede that potential customers may find purchases hard to finance.
93 I concede that point, but I still think you are wrong generally.
94 He did concede under pressure that if Liverpool were to get a goodish result at Stamford Bridge that they could have an advantage.
95 Absurd side effects occur when people are afraid to concede that they will break the rules if the stakes are high and there is any prospect of getting off scot-free.
96 We didn't stray, we didn't cry uncle, we didn't concede anything that would affect us in the long run.
97 He wooed her with expensive gifts and sponsored her through Chica Med, a second-rate beauty pageant organizers concede was viewed as a cattle market by gangsters looking for new girls.
98 The credit agency did concede that it does not see a risk of this occurring in the near to medium term, but does fear that markets may eventually put a risk premium on Japanese government debt.
99 The Democrats treated it as an excuse for partisan advantage, while the Republicans refused to concede that the economy needed a stimulus at all, making give-and-take impossible.
100 Suppose we concede, as well, that every such physical event is causally unproblematic.
101 But even the most skeptical historians concede that, around 1984 or so, the Soviets were actually getting the better of the mujahideen.
102 Golda Meir was the inspirational leader of Israel, a nation surrounded by hostile Arab neighbors that refused to concede its right to exist.
103 Miners, after all, concede the need for reform of Australia's convoluted mining tax regime.
104 The decision to concede a plebiscite on the voting system has enraged them.
105 It was a kick in the teeth to concede the equaliser so late on.
106 His rival, Senator Hillary Clinton, has remained visible, but tightlipped as to when she will concede and throw her support behind Obama.
107 Records show, and company officials concede, that Hatfield's Ferry is already dumping scrubber wastewater into the Monongahela that violates the state's few proposed pollution rules.
108 And regulators concede that large positions held by banks can be benign.
109 You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
110 Most critics of natural selection concede that Darwin survival of the fittest right.
111 Some comrades have asked why we should concede eight Liberated Areas.
112 And the tenacity refused to concede defeat naturally[sentence dictionary], let him be eager to overcome at hero Nice of choreographic examine fall among of not smooth.
113 This reduces the idea of interpretive community to a kind of atomism whereby we all concede and all say, "Yes, it's true. I am in a certain sense a community."
114 Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career.
115 We cannot concede any of our territory , ie allow another country to have it.
116 We indeed willingly concede, if any discussion arises over doctrine, that the best and surest remedy is for a synod of true bishops to be convened, where the doctrine at issue may be examined.
117 But then Creech and other money managers concede something else as well: Even when they suspect a major stock holding is dead money, it can be awfully hard to head for the exits.
118 Ridley's team appears to concede this, pointing out that the voucher system could encourage companies to revisit existing projects and build on them to develop drugs against neglected diseases.
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