Example sentences for: concession

How can you use “concession” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Similarly, the Post and LAT make much of how Jiang's mention of mistakes was an unprecedented policy concession, but since he didn't say anything at all about Tiananmen square or political prisoners when he used the phrase, why couldn't it be taken to be no more than the Chinese version of Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra "mistakes were made"--in other words merely a simulated apology, not a real one?

  • (A concession to a large Irish-American readership?)

  • They interpret the "next generation" strategy, Gates' assignment to it, and his adversarial references to AOL as a belated concession that AOL was right about the primacy of the Internet, Microsoft was wrong about the primacy of the PC, and Microsoft now has to play catch-up.

  • The LAT alone highlights Starr's sole concession in the face of all this: that perhaps when requesting from Janet Reno expansion of his charge into Jones-related matters, he should have informed her of the discussions he'd previously had with Jones' lawyers.

  • He begins by making such a concession about the 1996 Democratic fund-raising scandal: "It was wrong.


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