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Example sentences for "concession"

Lexicographically close words:
concertmaster; concerto; concertos; concerts; concessimus; concessionaires; concessional; concessions; concessit; concessive
  1. In 1530 it made a concession by ordering that it should be consulted when there was "inconvenience" in stating the month or year.

  2. We have seen that these were the property of the crown and that, when the Inquisition was allowed to retain the proceeds, it was a concession dependent upon the will of the sovereign.

  3. To obviate this objection, the unprecedented concession was made of suspending the canons concerning relapse.

  4. After this decennium, Sebastian again granted it in his efforts to provide for his ill-starred African expedition, but Henrique, on succeeding to the throne, felt his conscience much disturbed at this concession to apostasy.

  5. The only condition they would accept was the free exercise of their religion; the Duke applied to the viceroy, but Ribera declared it to be a concession beyond the power of king or pope to grant, for they were baptized.

  6. It was all they could do at the time, and much, very much, was obtained on the part of our negotiator in procuring a concession even to this extent.

  7. The King indeed had begun his concessions by granting freedom of the press on March 7th; but it seemed very unlikely that this concession would be accompanied by any securities that would make it a reality.

  8. Even among those who blamed and feared the agitation out-of-doors, several believed in the urgent necessity of a concession to remove all pretext for clamors and intrigues.

  9. Many of the royal family and of the other members of the Council flattered themselves that they had got rid of a formidable enemy without making any definite concession to the people.

  10. Then came the supreme task, getting a concession from the cook to bake it.

  11. In serving dinner I noticed that he had on a clean apron and a white jacket, a great concession for him.

  12. The latter is considered a great concession to a sailor.

  13. It was difficult for him to convince them that he had made this extraordinary concession simply in order to induce Antoine and his more intractable queen in their turn to attend the Roman Catholic services.

  14. It was, consequently, the conviction of many pious persons that, by the concession of some points of practice, the present divisions might be healed.

  15. The most trifling concession would be sufficient to secure the scion of the powerful families of Châtillon and Montmorency.

  16. But his indignant remonstrances were met by the assurance that benevolent designs for the Reformation were concealed beneath the apparent harshness of the law, which was a necessary concession to certain circumstances.

  17. The Roman Catholic party resisted, with all the energy of desperation, the concession of any places for worship according to the reformed faith.

  18. But concession may degenerate into cowardice, and submission into craven subserviency.

  19. It was represented as a renunciation of all those inalienable rights which belonged to him, not personally, but as the Sovereign Ruler of the Roman States, a most humiliating concession after all he had hitherto borne in their defence.

  20. This concession proved unfortunate for Napoleon, for scarcely had they gained access to the Sovereign Pontiff than they began to represent to him the immense importance of the Concordat which he had signed.

  21. That concession might be secured by general exchange of treaties, in the same way that the cooperation of so many nations has been secured to the suppression of the trade in slaves.

  22. If these states feel the extreme south wrong, a seeming concession would make them committed.

  23. The second section was an unjust concession to the miners of gold.

  24. The concession was made and the charge for coinage of gold was prohibited.

  25. It is a bill which demands reasonable concession from every Member of the Senate.

  26. The utmost concession hitherto wrung from her was that she would go to London and confront the King.

  27. V, Part 3), which concession restored her boy to her custody.

  28. How he came to be at Merton is an unsolved question; for it looks as if he were in Arundel's keeping still, and as if the concession to Constance had remained ineffectual.

  29. Thus admonished, or possibly conceiving that a sufficient concession had been made to the dignity of man's nature, Meek opened his mouth to speak.

  30. These were the liberties which their ancestors had received by the free concession of a former king, and these the rights which their virtue was to force from the present, if (which God forbid!

  31. The cod-liver oil was the only concession she had made to the increasing weakness which she could not ignore.

  32. Cassandra was left to infer that there were occasions when exaggeration was legitimate; occasions even when a man might succeed in blindfolding himself, but the concession did not alter the inward conviction.

  33. Washington generously ordered his overseer to admit "the honest poor" to fishing privileges at one of his shores, a concession that may have been customary among many landowners.

  34. The result was a timely concession of the king, which was granted in the form of a Great Charter.

  35. The policy of concession is a ruinous policy; one concession leads to the demand for another and a larger concession, and each concession strengthens the disaffected, and weakens the power of authority to resist.

  36. Already in the bottom of her heart was a faint hope that Carl might insist on having a dog in the house, and that she might show her dawning fondness for him by consenting--a greater concession than she had ever yet made in her life.

  37. And the degree of his concession is, in general, correlated with the lack of saleability of what he offers.

  38. Now, indeed, he must make some concession to the throngs moving back and forth, and he slackened his speed, but only slightly.

  39. In 1911 matters in Morocco grew serious, there being severe fighting by Spanish troops in the Spanish concession around Alcazar, while tribal outbreaks against Fez, the Sultan's capital, brought a French military expedition to that point.

  40. It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave.

  41. It was in vain that Canning advised him, unless he were prepared for concession on the catholic question, to summon a body of ministers sharing his own convictions.

  42. The way had been paved for the concession of complete free trade in the eastern seas by the reports of select committees and parliamentary debates under former governments.

  43. But the British cabinet was far from being unanimous; many, among whom Palmerston was specially prominent, urged the concession of a greatly increased territory.

  44. His candid admission that he was driven to concession by the fear of civil war has since become historical, and served as the watchword of many a lawless agitation in Ireland.

  45. These grievances were justly denounced by party leaders, but in the eyes of ordinary politicians, and still more of electors, coercion rather than concession was the appropriate remedy for the ills of Ireland.

  46. Any additional concession to Great Britain could only be purchased by British concessions to France.

  47. It is important to notice that it also limited the duration of each parliament to five years--a concession to radicalism afterwards abandoned and never since adopted.

  48. The limit; the air shaft--first concession to tenant.

  49. That in itself is a concession to the practical necessities of the case.

  50. It secured a concession from King Charles I--a superior to inferiors.

  51. Does your Grace think, then," asked Lord Sidmouth, "that this concession will tranquillize Ireland?

  52. But even this concession failed to satisfy the objectors, the King of Hanover, among others, positively refusing to waive his precedence over any foreign prince.

  53. But it seems certain that neither the concession nor the refusal of any demands put forward by any party in Ireland could have prevented the insurrection which broke out shortly afterward.

  54. And it was equally obvious that, the more promptly the concession was made, the more gracious it would seem, and the greater was the probability of its having the conciliatory and tranquillizing effect the hope of which made it so desirable.

  55. Concession of all the Demands of Ireland.

  56. This was supposed to be a concession to public sentiment; but it must have been thought that the public were very easily deceived, for there was really no concession at all, save to the railroad interests.

  57. After making this concession the pope died, and was succeeded by Clement VI.

  58. The emperor, when he made the concession before named, being at Tarento, signified an intention of going into Italy.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concession" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatement; acceptance; accommodation; accordance; acknowledgment; adjustment; admission; agio; allowance; apology; appreciation; arrangement; avowal; award; bargain; bestowal; boutique; breakage; brevet; cession; charter; circumscription; communication; composition; concession; confession; contribution; cooperative; countinghouse; cut; deal; declaration; deduction; deliverance; delivery; depreciation; diploma; donation; drawback; emporium; endowment; establishment; exception; exemption; franchise; grant; granting; hedge; hedging; house; investiture; liberality; liberty; limitation; mart; modification; offer; patent; penalty; percentage; post; premium; presentation; presentment; privilege; profession; provision; rebate; recognition; reduction; refund; reservation; restriction; salon; salvage; salvo; settlement; shop; shrift; specification; store; submission; subscription; supermarket; surrender; tare; understanding; waiver; warehouse; yielding