• We all know they had to make some concessions in order to move forward.

    FORBES: A Novel Approach to the Fiscal Cliff Debacle: How About a Dose of True Leadership?

  • According to court documents, it's willing to make these concessions in order to "avoid unnecessary disclosure" of further details on how the device works.

    ENGADGET: DoJ: Stingray cellphone tracking device falls under Fourth Amendment, but don't ask about it

  • For instance, greater Indian confidence may, just possibly, mean daring to make concessions in order to reach a deal with China over their disputed border.

    ECONOMIST: Asian missiles

  • But even many Democrats have shown little interest in extending the credit, and the White House might have to be willing to make concessions in order to preserve it.

    WSJ: Senate Deal Would Link Tax Cuts, Jobless Benefits

  • Yet, every indication is that Barack Obama is determined to weaken Israel, America's most important and reliable ally in the Middle East, by forcing the Jewish State to surrender territory and make other strategic concessions in order to create a Palestinian state.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • However, with all of that said, the economic climate we live in today means that union activists will not be able to fend off the calls for their members to pay more for health benefits and accept other concessions in order to meet budget shortfalls on the local, state and national level.

    CNN: Unions have to make concessions

  • America's drug industry also enjoys one of the lowest effective tax rates of any industry because of the extraordinary concessions made in order to persuade companies to develop drugs that might not be profitable through the orphan drug tax credit, for example.

    ECONOMIST: Energy gap

  • Negotiation is the art of asking for what you want and being willing to make concessions and adjustments in order to achieve the desired result.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Unlike many of them, however, Mr Yakis seems ready to make concessions over Cyprus in order to break the 28-year-old stalemate over the island between its Greeks and Turks.

    ECONOMIST: Turkey's government

  • Israel, he said must make new concessions to the Palestinians in order to convince them of its good faith.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An ally no more

  • The idea is that during that time, the US and the Europeans will place massive pressure on Israel to make more concessions to the Palestinians in order to restart stillborn negotiations.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's path to victory

  • And they're willing to make some concessions in terms of their personal privacy in order to have that happen.

    NPR: Sen. Cornyn: NSA Phone Tracking a Useful Tool

  • True, the movie theaters make robust margins on concessions, but in order to sell those tasty treats, people have to be in the seats.

    FORBES: Can Iron Man, Superman And Captain Kirk Save The Movie Box Office?

  • Currently, manufacturing wages are hovering around their 2000 level and as The Wall Street Journal notes, high unemployment and rising global competition means that employers are able to wring wage and benefit concessions from unions and employees in order to avoid outright job cuts, making the sector as a whole less attractive to potential hirees.

    FORBES: Are Stingy Employers To Blame For The So-Called Skills Shortage?

  • He broke the law to help fugitive slaves, yet made concessions that he found personally unconscionable in order to preserve the Union.

    NEWYORKER: Union Man

  • Mr. Ghanem suggested, however, that if foreign oil companies didn't send back their staff, who were evacuated at the start of the crisis last month, then Libya would be compelled to offer new oil concessions to other companies from Brazil, China and India in order to restore production and exports to their previous levels.

    WSJ: Mixed Mood in Libyan Capital

  • It is self-destructive folly to sacrifice this core synergy at the heart of global capitalism in order to gain concessions on global warming, dollar weakening, or Internet politics.

    WSJ: George Gilder: Why Antagonize China?

  • Pape claims that suicide terrorist incidents take place in a coordinated campaign by terrorist organizations in order to garner concessions from the targeted audience or government and that the use of such tactics is a strategic choice made by the organization.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: It's the ideology, stupid

  • However, part of the reason Lebanon's government is crippled is that it made concessions to Hezbollah -- including giving them veto power -- in order to end a political stalemate that boiled over into violence of historic proportions last year.

    CNN: Hezbollah choice at center of Lebanon vote

  • The inevitable conclusion of most Israelis is that our concessions bring violence on the Palestinian side in order to try to exploit what they see as our weakness.

    ECONOMIST: Middle East divided

  • Pursuant to section 4(b) of the USIFTA Act, I have determined that it is necessary, in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel provided for by the USIFTA, to provide duty-free access into the United States through the close of December 31, 2013, for specified quantities of certain agricultural products of Israel.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • In Proclamation 7826 of October 4, 2004, consistent with the 2004 Agreement, the President determined, pursuant to section 4(b) of the USIFTA Act, that it was necessary in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel provided for by the USIFTA, to provide duty-free access into the United States through December 31, 2008, for specified quantities of certain agricultural products of Israel.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • In exchange for these concessions, the Republicans would limit the increase in the dividend tax rate to 20% in order to maintain its equivalence to the capital gains tax rate.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • At the moment, it is not clear whether the rhetoric is really a negotiating ploy, in which the administration blusters in order to build credibility and extract maximum concessions when the time comes to negotiate, or whether it wants to change international relations in some fundamental way.

    ECONOMIST: Working out the world

  • What is pathetic about this episode is that the military had to restore the political order in exchange for presidential concessions that could have taken place reasonably (as it initially did) in the legislative democratic process.

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  • In any event, many people in Baghdad say the report merely urges what the American ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has been trying to achieve for more than a year: bigger concessions by the Shia- and Kurdish-dominated government to the Sunnis in order to quell the insurgency.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • In order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to agricultural trade with Israel, on July 27, 2004, the United States entered into an agreement with Israel concerning certain aspects of trade in agricultural products during the period January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2008 (the "2004 Agreement").

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Obama needs the banks and banks need Obama in order for that to happen, and both sides need to make some concessions.

    FORBES: Sorry Wall Street, Obama Prevails--It's Time For A Truce

  • When Pyongyang believes that more aid and concessions can be extracted, it first manufactures a crisis and then, when tensions are sufficiently high, suggests talks in order to get paid for returning to less dangerous behavior.

    CNN: North Korea manufactured this crisis

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