(n.) The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
(n.) A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.
Example Sentences:
(1) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(2) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(3) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(4) The question now is whether this signals forthcoming concessions from the authorities.
(5) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(6) But Denis Pushilin, the chairman of the temporary government in Donetsk, told the Guardian on Friday afternoon he had not heard of these concessions and that any decision on them would have to be made by a loosely organised council of protest leaders.
(7) Hockey carried on in his budget speech about the age pension becoming unaffordable, but within three years this top-end superannuation concession will cost more than the age pension.
(8) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(9) This would be a painful concession for May to make if it means going into the next general election without keeping her promise of severing all ties, but it could be a necessary compromise if no lasting trade deal is in place.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eric Canto delivers his concession speech in Richmond, Virginia.
(11) Because it turned into a China-US incident, the US put a lot of pressure on China , which is why the authorities made a concession to allow Chen Guangcheng to study overseas," he said.
(12) When it comes to the debt ceiling... it is absolutely his view that demands for aransom of any kind, any kind of extraction of a concession ... are unacceptable.
(13) The midfielder's alarming loss of concentration and concession of possession precipitated Gabriel Agbonlahor's winner, crushing already cautious Wearside optimism and ensuring Gus Poyet's side remain stuck to the bottom of the table.
(14) EU renegotiation: UK wins partial concession on migrant worker benefits Read more In a major boost to David Cameron, who laid the ground for a short referendum campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after Donald Tusk published his proposals, the home secretary said progress had been made in the negotiations.
(15) A most attacking left-back, the Dutchman has been culpable for the concession of quite a few goals during his distinctly chequered time on Wearside but, equally, scores his fair share.
(16) The government has played down the prospect of imminent changes to super concessions and attacked Labor for proposing such measures last month.
(17) "It has become apparent that the company's continued refusal to reinstate staff travel concessions for striking members and its vindictive disciplinary measures against Unite members raises new items of dispute," said Woodley and Simpson.
(18) They say the agreement is unsustainable on a big scale and could set a worrying precedent for companies looking for tax concessions.
(19) Nothing should diminish the reality that Eritrean victims of that persecution deserve our solidarity, and need to be supported by all of us who believe that conciliation and concession to regimes such as exists in Eritrea will surely fail.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wolves: nobody is making easy concessions.
Derogation
Definition:
(n.) The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.
(n.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed increase in self-derogation over a 1-year period in persons with initially positive self-attitudes is discussed with regard to the literature on developmental disturbances in self-image; differential volunerability to self-devaluing experiences; and the relationship between change in, and level of, self-acceptance.
(2) Results indicate that health care presented within the context of not having a choice is derogated and that choice and patient mix combine to influence intentions to seek care.
(3) Results indicated an effect of sex identification; the male blunderer was derogated most by male subjects (n = 34) and the female most by female subjects (n = 34).
(4) However, whether or not suicidal behaviors are related to self-derogating feelings in the more remote past can be seen as a function of a sex-social-class-mode of suicidal response interaction.
(5) Inspectors found that senior staff at Durham Free School had allowed a culture to develop where it was acceptable for racist words and sexually derogative and homophobic terms to be used.
(6) Detaining non-suspects for up to seven days, virtually incommunicado and without effective review at the time, removing the right to silence on penalty of imprisonment, and criminalising any disclosure of detention, is excessive and disproportionate in view of existing powers, the level of terrorist threat, and the absence of any declared public emergency justifying derogation from protected human rights.
(7) Some derogations could attenuate the severity of these dispositions--as jurisprudence had taken progresses of Epileptology and therapeutics into consideration.
(8) The duty of care owed by the commonwealth to asylum seekers and refugees is non-derogable – it cannot be suspended or transferred.
(9) Self-derogators were judged to be submissive, elicited dominating reactions, and selected more topics with negative content.
(10) A particularly interesting interpretation of this phenomenon, consistent with a large body of clinical and experimental literature, ascribes it to self-derogation processes in low-PA persons and self-enhancement processes in high-PA persons.
(11) But Caoilfhionn Gallagher, representing the media with Mike Dodd, legal editor of the Press Association, said not knowing the names would be “a major derogation from the open justice principle” – and that the public had a right to know who, and what, was going on in public courts.
(12) We predicted that authoritarian actors would engage in defensive attribution, and authoritarian observers would derogate the other, to a greater extent than egalitarian perceivers.
(13) The commission should expand the EU-wide ban to cover all uses of neonicotinoids on all crops, and end the self-service approach to derogations.
(14) 10c derogation intent When the EU adopted the climate and energy package in December 2008, the 10c derogation was included as an exception to the rule that from 2013 onwards, all allowances for power companies should be auctioned rather than granted for free.
(15) Many Tories were demanding she went for a temporary derogation of human rights laws.
(16) Attitudes toward victims of AIDS were conceptualized as serving three possible functions: a value-expressive function (e.g., stigmatization), an ego-defensive function (e.g., homosexual prejudice), or a knowledge function (e.g., victim derogation).
(17) The report adds: "As they incorporate derogations from the principle of open justice, superinjunctions and anonymised injunctions can only be granted when they are strictly necessary.
(18) Experiments 1 and 2 showed that self-derogations connote submissiveness but are generally judged to be neutral in affiliation.
(19) The European parliament’s industry committee last month approved a rule change allowing Greece to join the scheme, the ‘10c derogation’ of the emissions trading system (ETS).
(20) Article 15 of the human rights convention allows a state to withdraw temporarily or derogate in legal terms from some of its rights in times of national emergency which threaten the life of the nation, to allow the use of measures that have to be "strictly required".