Example sentences for: concessions

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

  • The Wall Street Journal 's "Washington Wire" column ticks off the legislation's many concessions to special interest groups.

  • Perhaps the better conceit than credibility is consistency . The consistent Israeli policy, for instance, of not giving concessions to terrorists is widely acknowledged to have stymied the once common hijackings and other acts of terror directed against Israel.

  • He pressed Johnson for concessions on certain Reconstruction issues in exchange for his vote and those of other fence sitters.

  • The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."

  • Pointing out that Netanyahu had battled against the Oslo accords and promised his fellow countrymen that they wouldn't have to give up territory in exchange for peace, Le Monde said he has now come to recognize that territorial concessions are necessary.


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