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Example sentences for "make concessions"

  • Again Metternich was disposed to make concessions, and again his concessions were so framed as to be utterly inadequate to the occasion.

  • The House of Magnates, doubtless under the influence of Szechenyi, were disposed to make concessions to the Croats; but even they were not able to do much to check the storm.

  • Whenever he was strong and able to hold his own, he was ready to make concessions.

  • I did not, however, at once withdraw the clause from the list of terms, because in the course of negotiations it might prove useful as a point on which I could, if necessary, make concessions to the Tibetans.

  • As the Town Council proved obstinate in refusing to make concessions, the stadholder was compelled to take strong action.

  • The Swedish threat was useful in bringing diplomatic pressure to bear on the Danish king, but ultimately they felt confident that, if he refused to make concessions in the matter of the dues, they could compel him to do so.

  • In the determination not to continue the old agreement, the Friends of Liberty and Trade were meanwhile strongly confirmed when it was learned that Britain was willing on her part to make concessions.

  • We now know that the Bulgarian Government had no intention whatever to make concessions to the other Balkan States.

  • Every effort was made by Austria and Russia to localize it and to induce the Porte to make concessions.

  • Yet the Government in its stubbornness refused to make concessions, and when it was forced to make them, it did so rather in its own interest than in that of the Jews.

  • The difficulties attending the execution of this wholesale expulsion forced the Government to make concessions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    birds belonging; just stated; make answer; make camp; make choice; make every; make fire; make free; make further; make haste; make improvements; make itself; make known; make light; make money; make much; make peace; make report; make sail; make them; make war; make warre; make what; make white; make you; settling down