(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.
Recognition
Definition:
(n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(2) Early recognition is facilitated by monitoring of arterial blood gas levels for hypoxemia.
(3) Osteoporosis and its treatment have attracted much attention in recent years, especially since the widespread recognition of its association with the menopause.
(4) In subsequent experiments, both components were found to be significant and additive predictors of face recognition with no residual effect of typicality.
(5) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
(6) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
(7) The results suggest that AH5183 does not bind to the ACh transporter recognition site on the outside of the vesicle membrane, and thus it might inhibit allosterically.
(8) These studies show that females develop significantly more cell-mediated immune responses to some chemical haptenes than men and the data also points to an overall higher rate of haptene recognition.
(9) In contrast, insertion of a pre-S(1) sequence between HBcAg residues 75 and 83 abrogated recognition of HBcAg by 5 of 6 anti-HBc monoclonal antibodies and diminished recognition by human polyclonal anti-HBc.
(10) Recognition and prompt treatment of this potentially fatal dermatological crisis is stressed.
(11) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(12) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(13) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(14) Determination of the T-cell recognition profile of Mb by the overlapping peptide strategy revealed that the protein has six T sites.
(15) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(16) Because all differences were found only in this region of the molecule, and because DR alpha-chains seem to be relatively non-polymorphic, these positions in the DR beta-chain must have a major role in influencing T-cell recognition of the DR molecule.
(17) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(18) These trends include an increase in the number of elderly who need the benefits of home care, the recognition that long-term chronic illnesses require appropriate management at home, and concern that patients have access to care at the level most appropriate to their illnesses.
(19) Four tested TLC display strikingly different antigen recognition patterns when tested against a number of other mycobacterial antigens; one TLC so far recognizes only M. leprae antigens.
(20) With recognition that any mass that appears in a woman using oral contraceptives must be studied by biopsy, combined clinical and mammographic study in primenopausal women should minimize diagnostic error.