What's the difference between capitulate and concede?

Capitulate


Definition:

  • (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
  • (n.) To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
  • (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arsenal had capitulated and the sense of history repeating itself was overwhelming.
  • (2) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (3) "Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.
  • (4) Photograph: Reuters Manchester United 4-0 Arsenal 16 February 2008, fifth round, Old Trafford Many an Arsenal fan looks back at this capitulation as the day that Arsenal’s last convincing title bid fell apart.
  • (5) Both developments represent a remarkable capitulation for the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who had initially sought to simply extend the Patriot Act provisions, despite overwhelming support in the House of Representatives for the USA Freedom Act.
  • (6) This performance was arguably more troubling than the infamous late capitulation in May.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Iran nuclear deal is ‘madness’, says Dick Cheney Cheney said the current nuclear agreement with Iran was an “intricately crafted capitulation”.
  • (8) "There is no talk of capitulation, everybody's really happy," he said.
  • (9) Cameron's initial U-turn to put Heathrow back in play was a classic of this syndrome, capitulating to the toughest corporate lobby of recent times.
  • (10) Where the authorities at Wimbledon are to be congratulated on holding out on the white-clothes-only rule, the BBC is to be gently applauded for capitulating to the court of viewer opinion.
  • (11) There would be no capitulation, no surrender, no private jet into pampered exile.
  • (12) Ten minutes after they sailed, the radio announced that the Netherlands had capitulated.
  • (13) They have not capitulated to the pressure; why should they suddenly cap in the last six months of their lives?"
  • (14) Rio Ferdinand on Manchester United: ‘It’s embarrassing to be in Europa League’ Read more He was not alone, however, in those moments when United’s back four capitulated.
  • (15) "Debt-to-GDP ratios are already eye-wateringly high, and this week's stunning capitulation in May industrial production data from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands has raised fears that the so-called eurozone recovery has become stuck in quicksand, and without growth to erode the debt levels, the money that has flowed into Europe could well come flooding back out."
  • (16) But eventually, in October, he capitulated and cut, amongst other things, “the entire secondary wave of head chunks”.
  • (17) Inspired by the magnificent Ross Barkley, however, there was no late capitulation from Everton this time and they took Stoke’s place in the top half of the table after winning consecutive league games for the first time this season.
  • (18) Eventually she capitulated and joined Tillman, who described her as the "queen of retail", taking over as chief executive of Jaeger with a 20% stake in the business.
  • (19) Why would rebels come to hear the terms of their capitulation?
  • (20) Children and adults with TS experience the intrusion into consciousness of unwanted and disturbing sensations, thoughts and desires; they repeatedly experience the need, arising from an "alien" force within themselves, to produce sounds and actions which they try to resist but to which they eventually capitulate.

Concede


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
  • (v. t.) To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
  • (v. t.) To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
  • (v. i.) To yield or make concession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
  • (2) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (3) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
  • (4) He also conceded that commercial operators could not solve the problem alone.
  • (5) said Bengis, a Miami-based lawyer who campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton four years ago before she conceded the Democratic Party's nomination to Barack Obama.
  • (6) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
  • (7) There’s no doubt that we have some work to do on mobilisation,” concedes an insider.
  • (8) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
  • (9) The only thing is that we had a chance to score another goal and instead we conceded a goal, as I think you saw.” Russia’s elimination means that Capello, who won nine league titles in 16 seasons with Milan, Real Madrid and Juventus, has now taken charge of seven World Cup games and won only one – when England beat Slovenia 1-0 four years ago.
  • (10) The only crime was conceding a goal [so soon] after we had scored.
  • (11) England, having conceded the equal fewest number of goals in the group stages and none against Denmark, might claim to be the best defensive side.
  • (12) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
  • (13) Then BuzzFeed decided to publish the full 35-page memo while conceding it was “unverified and potentially unverifiable”.
  • (14) Even Corbyn’s fiercest critics have to concede he has achieved something astonishing.
  • (15) The author concedes that a combined version with intact membranes prior to an attempt of vaginal delivery may have been desirable in his cases but he reiterates that a Caesarean section for the second twin was the only way to obtain healthy live infants in his three exceptional cases.
  • (16) Non-discrimination laws chart Although the decisive manner in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the business community rallied against – and ultimately helped change – the Indiana law marked a major turning point, Talbot conceded that the project itself is unfinished.
  • (17) Tory U-turn on fracking regulations will leave safeguards totally inadequate | Lisa Nandy and Kerry McCarthy Read more “Ministers had previously conceded there should be the tougher safeguards that Labour has been calling for to protect drinking water sources and sensitive parts of our countryside like national parks,” said the Labour MP.
  • (18) The way we hit back after conceding that goal was the most pleasing thing.
  • (19) At the other end, they at least got two goals against a Belgian team that has only conceded one goal in World Cup qualification, but the penalty had a big element of fortune about it, and there'll be concerns about Jozy Altidore yet again failing to score in a Klinsmann team.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Relatives of passengers react to Dutch investigation findings The Dutch safety board report, published in English and Dutch, concedes that family members had to wait “an unnecessarily long period of time” for formal confirmation that their loved ones were dead.