This will force both Remainers and Leavers into making concessions.
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Likewise, Ohtani is making concessions to join M.L.B. next season.
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In a rational world, Russia would be the one making concessions.
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And then begin making concessions to the fact that you are. . . .
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That forces it to woo the Greens to govern, potentially making concessions.
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And there's nothing inherently weak about making concessions in negotiation with adversaries.
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"We need to reconsider the notion of making concessions," Dr. O'Reilly says.
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Women do the same thing by making concessions and wanting to remain agreeable.
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In many cases a settlement agreement is reached, with both sides making concessions.
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Trump has mocked his predecessors for making concessions that ultimately produced no results.
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However, in turn, Uber is making concessions, including clarifying its messaging regarding tipping.
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It's not a matter of bargaining, not about making concessions here and there.
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But I believe making concessions to get things done is just a first phase.
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Indeed, this term even Kennedy appeared uninterested in making concessions to the liberal justices.
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Mr. Xi appears particularly set against making concessions that could weaken his strongman reputation.
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Together with those countries, he could pressure the Palestinians into making concessions on certain issues.
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Prisons were ransacked, officers were killed, and staff were bullied into making concessions for inmates.
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Some analysts say Duterte risks appearing as if he has been duped into making concessions.
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Socialist officials countered that rejection of the budget showed they were not making concessions to Catalan separatists.
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"The fact is, Canada is not making concessions in areas where we think they're essential," he said.
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One reason may be to assuage lawmakers who do not favor making concessions on ZTE to China.
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"The fact is, Canada is not making concessions in areas where we think they're essential," Lighthizer said.
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So, the question is, is the president making concessions to Putin before the two men even sit down?
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And that means making concessions for the scenarios that are most likely to compromise decades of thoughtful saving.
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That, she hopes, could bolster her argument on the Brexit talks, and coax the EU into making concessions.
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U.S. regulators have already approved the deal, but Qualcomm has resisted making concessions to secure approval in Europe.
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Shields has been unapologetically herself throughout her illustrious career, and she isn't going to start making concessions now.
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After all, to keep North Korea talking and ultimately making concessions will require concerted and ongoing U.S. pressure.
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The companies are looking at making concessions, a person familiar with the matter said, declining to provide details.
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"The fact is, Canada is not making concessions in areas where we think they are essential," Lighthizer said.
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They wanted the party to stop making concessions to Democrats, and were fiercely opposed to "amnesty" for undocumented workers.
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That could be at the cost of making concessions on migration which are opposed by some anti-EU campaigners.
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Lam is still trying to thread the needle of restoring order without making concessions that would weaken her standing.
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Mr. Trump's pronouncement raised fears that Washington was making concessions before North Korea had actually dismantled its nuclear weapons.
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"The fact is that Canada is not making concessions in areas that we think are essential," Mr. Lighthizer said.
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That might come by way of a deal that involves Putin making concessions on Russia's interference with Ukraine, for example.
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The ERG, which wants Brexit at almost any cost, has opposed May's arguably necessary deal-making concessions at every turn.
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But the Trump administration has fiercely criticized past administrations for making concessions on trade policy to accomplish foreign policy goals.
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"For Pyongyang, the way to get sanctions lifted is not through making concessions, but resorting to further escalation," he said.
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The appointment overseeing Hong Kong reflected a similar hope of containing another huge challenge without making concessions to public opinion.
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And you end up at a place where Attorney General William Barr says: Look, you're making concessions to the Chinese government.
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But too fixated on the deadline, and we'll find ourselves in an even greater dilemma, making concessions and overlooking small infractions.
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Senate leaders locked down the necessary votes on Friday with little drama, after making concessions to a handful of wavering Republicans.
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The Chinese leadership has compartmentalized the situation as a law enforcement dispute while making concessions on trade to help defuse tensions.
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Hong Kong's beleaguered leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday dismissed the prospect of making concessions to pro-democracy protesters as violence escalates.
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The question for Prime Minister Boris Johnson is whether he'll be forced into making concessions that are unacceptable to British lawmakers.
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The European Union has no interest in making concessions or throwing the sort of lifeline that could help her bring them 'round.
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While Mr. Moon hailed the meeting's outcome in general, stunned South Korean officials worried that Mr. Trump was making concessions too fast.
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AUSTRIA Uber was suspended for two days last year due to a local taxi firm's lawsuit, but resumed operations after making concessions.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan is making concessions on his Obamacare replacement plan to win Republican votes, but it still may not be enough.
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In the meantime, Macron is making concessions to the protesters: on Tuesday evening, among other things, he promised to increase the minimum wage.
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One way political observers say Clinton can stymie Stein's potential impact is by making concessions on the party platform, particularly on environmental issues.
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But if something is important to the White House, they find a way to get it done by making concessions on other fronts.
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House GOP leaders believe they can secure enough votes from Republicans alone to clear this week's stopgap bill without making concessions to Democrats.
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If the U.S. truly wants decoupling, they argue, what is the use of negotiating and making concessions in the hope of resolving issues?
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The measure includes changes intended to win over additional votes, with leadership making concessions aimed at bringing both conservatives and moderates on board.
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The measure includes changes intended to win over additional votes, with leadership making concessions aimed at bringing both conservatives and moderates on board.
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And in a polarized political context, that can mean that moving forward with a policy agenda without making concessions to the other side.
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The House passed it by making concessions to the party's conservatives, who otherwise were hell bent on stopping the bill in its tracks.
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Ms Arrimadas accuses him of making "concessions" to coup-mongers by failing to stop the separatists from using public resources to promote their "republic".
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"The fact is, Canada is not making concessions in areas where we think they're essential," he said at the Concordia Summit in New York.
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But the church has been making concessions to secular powers since before Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne in the year 800.
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Clinton — making concessions that might make his opponent and her supporters happy in the end — without appearing to be ceding authority to his rival.
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Heading into this round of haggling, both sides committed to digging in, making concessions and arriving at a deal that could pass both chambers.
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Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) but not without first making concessions to appease angst over what members said was her iron control of the caucus.
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Lam, the city's leader, said the protesters were engaging in "wishful thinking" if they thought they could pressure the government into making concessions with violence.
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He has been a consistent advocate of the administration's use of tariffs as a way to coerce Beijing into making concessions during the bilateral negotiations.
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The move was the latest round in escalating tit-for-tat trade tensions, with U.S. President Donald Trump aiming to pressure Beijing into making concessions.
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Dany has done her best to fit into Winterfell, dealing with abundant awkwardness and making concessions, like agreeing to let Jaime stick around on Sunday.
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Mr. Trump's announcement raised fears in the South Korean capital that Washington was making concessions too fast, before North Korea has dismantled its nuclear weapons.
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"That would be a key indication that China is winning in the region and that Southeast Asian countries were making concessions to China," he said.
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For the average Iranian, the results have been lackluster, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been criticized for making concessions that extracted little in return.
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Ri Thae Song, North Korea's vice foreign minister in charge of U.S. affairs, accused Washington of being "keen on earning time" instead of making concessions.
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One possibility is a quid pro quo, with Russia making concessions on Syria in exchange for the United States ceding ground on Ukraine and sanctions.
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Addressing parliament, he said making concessions to the Kremlin before Russia had handed the Crimea region back to Ukraine would be a defeat for international law.
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The Chinese government could end up making concessions that allow Amazon and other U.S. companies to play on a more level playing field against local competitors.
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They're trying to do it by making concessions to the conservatives — though they don't seem to be in sync on which ones they're willing to make.
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American adversaries like North Korea, meanwhile, appear determined to take their chances diplomatically, seeing Trump as a weakened target, more prone to making concessions than ever.
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He can openly commit to a process without concern about making concessions, since only the US is actively working on restarting a peace process right now.
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"If you now start making concessions on other things, you give in to blackmail," said Guntram Wolff, the director of Bruegel, a research organization in Brussels.
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Urgency is rising in both parties to reopen the government, even if that means making concessions their leaders might not have considered a few weeks ago.
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Netanyahu's government, which is proud of its right-wing credentials, is not built for negotiations with the Palestinians, nor for making concessions in a peace process.
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Legislators looking to defend their seats have to appeal to the hyper-partisan voters who come out in primaries by stressing their hardline credentials, not making concessions.
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Xi faces other diplomatic risks too: first, the moral hazard of making concessions in exchange for Washington relaxing duties, thereby proving tariffs to be an effective weapon.
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Mr Netanyahu must still form a government, which means making concessions to his likely allies on the right, who feel more strongly about annexation than he does.
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North Korea has long viewed denuclearization as a series of reciprocal steps taken over a long period of time, with both sides making concessions along the way.
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It would enable him to reach beyond his base, which prioritizes "values," opposes Hispanic and Muslim immigration, and objects to making concessions to minorities of any stripe.
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The latest version of the measure includes changes aimed at winning over additional votes, with leadership making concessions aimed at bringing both conservatives and moderates on board.
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Even when the topic under discussion offers mutual gain, the spectre of, say, French leaders making concessions to Germans can so repel French voters as to scupper deals.
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Tariffs of 25% on low-margin Chinese goods like clothing could hit sales in America, and can be seen as a way of cudgelling China into making concessions.
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One official said the North-South talks were likely to follow the pattern of past diplomatic efforts, in which North Korea has benefited from aid without making concessions.
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The Kurds have been swiftly making concessions to Baghdad since last week, when Abadi sent his forces to seize all Kurdish-held territory outside of three autonomous provinces.
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"They are comfortable making concessions because they are the overwhelmingly dominant culture," said Henri Barkey, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
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But investing in the UN-led peace process would involve making concessions to the Houthis, a humiliating climbdown for the Saudi crown prince after four years of conflict.
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"We make it clear that we are making concessions and sacrifices with unbearable pain, to protect jobs and survival rights of 300,000 workers," the union said in a statement.
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He has three choices: tear it up, bully the United States' partners into making concessions that merely damage the agreement or go for a renegotiation that benefits all three.
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Frustrated by a recent surge of migrants that has overwhelmed U.S. resources on its southern border, Trump had used the threat of tariffs to pressure Mexico into making concessions.
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Only by making concessions in these areas can we create the basis for a compromise about refugee acceptance that includes fair distribution of asylum seekers throughout the European Union.
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They bring to trade negotiations a steadfast belief that any resolution must consist of China making concessions on issues such as forced technology transfers and currency manipulation, Cramer said.
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But since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 and its economy took off, leaders in Beijing have become increasingly set against making concessions on human rights cases.
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Protesters who have warned Zelenskiy about making concessions to Putin in Paris were camped outside the presidential administration in Kiev, watching the summit news conference on a big screen.
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The legislation is not expected to be blocked by lords, but the government could be forced into making concessions as it does not have a majority in the upper house.
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Dow Chemical and DuPont, two chemical giants, won approval from the European Union for their $130bn merger, after making concessions including the sale of large parts of DuPont's pesticide business.
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The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, an ethnic Tigrayan movement that had dominated the EPRDF until Abiy's rise and led the fight against Mengistu, initially warned against making concessions to Eritrea.
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After all, the way the negotiations have happened — with the White House and members of Republican House leadership making concessions to conservative policy demands, only to have Freedom Caucus head Rep.
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The Israelis, to put it mildly, disagree — and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long made clear that it wouldn't even consider making concessions over Jerusalem.
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All he wants is to protect his people, and as Tormund tells him with an arch reminder about Mance Rayder's pride directly leading to his death, that sometimes means making concessions.
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Forget about Trump making concessions to Moscow; if anything, the US relationship with Russia is worse now than it was during the Obama years because of Putin's steadfast support for Assad.
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Japanese negotiators still focus much of their efforts on protecting farmers, but with Japan's rural population rapidly aging and shrinking, governments no longer see making concessions on agriculture as politically fatal.
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While the Obama administration was less prone to making concessions, Pyongyang took a great leap forward in its weapons programs by conducting four nuclear tests and four long-range missile tests.
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To hard-liners like Mr. Trump's national security adviser, John R. Bolton, who excoriated past administrations for making concessions ahead of disarmament, capitulating to Mr. Kim on this issue is anathema.
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The academic told CNBC that a major technology CEO he spoke to said that he was convinced the industry would need to start making "concessions" in the form of taxing more profits.
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Now the Saudis are trying to push others into making concessions by raising the prospect that if they do not there will be no deal, an outcome that would be worse for everyone.
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A small number of those mosques have been permitted to reopen as a result of making concessions to the security state, such as the installation of video surveillance, or changes to religious leadership.
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Ryabkov also said there had been an attempt to present the situation in a way that it would be impossible to preserve the deal without Tehran making concessions, the Interfax news agency reported.
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To keep power, the energy-friendly Clark needs to woo the tiny environmentalist Green Party, possibly making concessions as she tries to push forward with pipeline expansion plans and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.
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Israel argues a UN debate would only galvanize international sentiment against it, making concessions to the Palestinians all the more difficult while Palestinians dig in their heels, thinking that the world is with them.
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By presenting his abstract and figurative works in this church, Scully aspires to associate his art with thoughts about the spiritual, but without making concessions to religious tradition, and thus creating a philosophical conundrum.
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"We firmly believe that making concessions increases the risks for Americans and others traveling abroad," the official said, adding that the United States had worked closely with Ugandan authorities for the release of Endecott.
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Some may see that potential move as one made out of desperation, as much as a distaste for the IPO process, given that Spotify's previous round of financing reportedly required making concessions to investors.
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Yet with GM already making concessions to the union, including taking away a proposal that would have forced workers to pay 15% of their healthcare premiums, instead of offering that workers pay only 4%.
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Accentuating ad nauseam the "blood bond" between the North and South, all the while peddling the practical virtues of making concessions to the North Korean tyrant, begs the question: On whose side stands Moon?
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As China's strongman leading the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," Xi cannot afford to be seen as weak or making concessions to hostile foreigners, especially not to the Americans and certainly not publicly.
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"The Trump administration has yet to give a satisfactory answer about the reason behind and the appropriateness of making concessions to ZTE, a Chinese company that illegally sold U.S. technology to hostile regimes," they wrote.
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"The Moon administration is certainly thinking about how making concessions to the U.S. regarding agriculture will effect their future political careers," said Riley Walters, research associate at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.
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Dylan Matthews: What did you make of Bernie's endorsement speech, and the whole runup to it, with Clinton reaffirming her support for the public option, coming around on free college, making concessions on the platform, etc.?
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The only process that will work is one in which both sides are making concessions nearly at the same time, allowing everyone to save face, with no one side looking like it is appeasing the other.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is on the verge of making concessions around a key welfare reform that has angered opposition parties as well as members of her own Conservatives, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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"The Chinese made a fundamental mistake strategically at the beginning, [not] realizing they should have followed the path of Mexico and Canada in making concessions quickly," he told CNBC, referring to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Now there is a debate at the top of the government as to whether it is in fact true, and that America has become a foe so implacable that there is no point making concessions to it.
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Tsipras welcomed the euro zone's decision on Monday to provide Greece short-term debt relief and said Athens still aimed at concluding a key bailout review as soon as possible but without making concessions on "irrational demands".
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MADRID — Spain's opposition Popular Party has elected Pablo Casado to replace Mariano Rajoy as its leader, choosing a hard liner who wants to stop the Socialist government from making concessions to Catalan separatists and from legalizing euthanasia.
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Mr. Netanyahu is at risk of being indicted in a corruption investigation – a predicament that analysts said would make less likely to antagonize the right-wing members of his coalition by making concessions to win a deal.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States and Japan have reached the broad framework of a trade agreement, Japan's Nikkei business daily said on Saturday, with Tokyo making concessions on its agriculture but none immediately apparent from Washington on automobiles.
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Success of 'moderation' But the Iranian President, who faces an election in May and has been sharply criticized by hardliners for making concessions the US to accomplish the nuclear pact, did offer some positive words about the agreement.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has tried to unblock the talks with EU leaders, after they stalled over disagreements on the final divorce bill, by making concessions on the role of the European court and the financial settlement.
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Democrats are under pressure from their base to secure protections for the "Dreamers," but also must contend with a base of supporters that is loathe for Democrats to cooperate with Trump, particularly if it means making concessions. Dealmaker?
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China previously "paid" the United States by making concessions to the US in exchange for which the United States took on the obligations in the WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding — which require us to follow the WTO's retaliation process.
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BERLIN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel faced criticism from within the ranks of her own conservatives on Thursday for making concessions to her centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners to seal a governing alliance a day earlier.
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That the tech giants are making concessions on some of these points may be because they sense that the political mood is turning against them in America and in Europe, or because of genuine concern for the media ecosystem.
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The United States is not interested in making concessions to North Korea anytime soon, following what is widely believed to be that country's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), according to analysts at research firm Eurasia Group.
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The Drudge Report's Matt Drudge sent out a rare tweet Wednesday morning criticizing the GOP for making concessions to Democrats on taxes and health care, saying there is no longer an "illusion" of difference between the two major parties.
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"If I start making concessions on the freedom of movement, then another country will tomorrow come and say: 'I don't want so many Bulgarians and Romanian workers either'," Merkel told a conference of the youth wing of her Christian Democrats (CDU).
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The cuts would come amid a general push from the Trump administration to reduce foreign aid and assistance to other countries, and are reportedly intended to pressure Palestinian politicians into making concessions ahead of a US-sponsored Middle East peace plan.
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Despite his clarification, lawmakers signaled they wanted to have more say on the exit deal and would try to force the government into making concessions next month in parliament by guaranteeing in law a vote that gives lawmakers a greater say.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As trade talks resume between China and the United States, President Donald Trump's advisers are confident he can portray his stance against Beijing as a strength in the 2020 election, despite making concessions and having no deal in sight.
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Verizon argues that it needs to change with the times, and that requires workers making concessions — like being willing to work farther away from home for two months, or allowing the company to transfer jobs more than 0003 miles away.
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This discourages foreign negotiators from making concessions to forge deals with the U.S. for fear that, soon after agreements have been reached, the president or a top White House adviser will up the U.S. demands required to sustain the deal.
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The measure is one of a raft of new laws that took effect with the beginning of the new year and that exemplify the search for compromises between preserving French traditions and making concessions to the realities of the modern world.
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But a below-par performance will embolden critics in her party and could then complicate the already-difficult task of executing her Brexit plan without making concessions to pro-EU factions, such as agreeing to stay in the EU customs union.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Canada is not making concessions needed to reach a deal with the United States for a trilateral NAFTA pact and is running out of time before Washington proceeds with a Mexico-only agreement, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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"We haven't stopped making concessions and we are prepared to enter into coalition negotiations and give more ground still, but it's key that the Socialists understand that the voters did not vote for a one-party government," Iglesias told laSexta television on Tuesday.
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Powerful German labour union IG Metall union has said however that PSA's cost targets per vehicle cannot not be met without management's making concessions on pay, and have demanded that Opel's management fulfil its pledge of allocating more production to the Eisenach plant.
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The EPA has overseen weakened regulations under other Republican administrations, but Pruitt stands out both because he's been so ham-fisted in making concessions to big business and because it's become harder and harder to ignore the visible effects of climate change.
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"There are anxieties that Trump's unscripted capabilities could lead to him being cornered by Putin and making concessions that would be completely detrimental to European security in general," said Mathieu Boulegue, research fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House.
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They are quietly working to keep Mr. Trump from having a direct encounter with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran or making concessions in a meeting with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea that they fear could undermine efforts to denuclearize North Korea.
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But it has also left them anxious, and asking: What does it mean for one's homeland to be put on the table by Mr. Trump, an inveterate deal maker, in negotiations with China's Communist leaders, who are not known for making concessions easily?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said it was "too soon" for Washington to talk to Beijing about working out a deal on trade, suggesting U.S. tariffs have yet to exert enough pressure to force Beijing into making concessions at the negotiating table.
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On the other hand, he clearly does have some kind of interest in a geopolitical rapprochement with Moscow, and he's never really made it clear what it is he thinks he can get in exchange for making concessions to Russia on Syria and Ukraine.
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In a meeting with his Chinese counterpart at the G20 summit in Osaka he agreed to extend trade negotiations with China—but only after making concessions, including the reversal of his decision to blacklist Huawei, a Chinese telecoms firm his administration accuses of spying.
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And if Trump is trying to prod Mexico into making concessions on NAFTA negotiations, it's not clear that that's going to work—Mexico is in the middle of a presidential campaign, and Trump's Twitter rant caused both leading candidates to fire back at him.
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And the new Hamas leaders — who attended a lunch on Monday with Mr. Hamdallah at the home of Ahmed Hiles, the leader of a Fatah-aligned clan that has clashed violently with Hamas — insist they are serious about making concessions in the name of unity.
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" The editorial also questioned why China was making concessions on fossil-fuel use when the United States was scrapping its promises: "How can China, still underdeveloped, give away a chunk of room for development, just to nourish those Western countries that are already rich?
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The government should resist even the sort of messy compromise that seems to be tempting it as a means of avoiding disruption at Euro 2016—making concessions to the CGT on restructuring efforts for the national railways, say, in exchange for its acquiescence on the labour laws.
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The Mexican government has not yet reacted to the suggestion that it could be given a 30-day exemption on the tariffs, with further exemptions linked to the NAFTA talks, but on Monday, Guajardo rejected making concessions in the wider trade deal to avoid steel tariffs.
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Britain's House of Lords is still debating the bill that will trigger the UK's exit from the EU. The legislation is not expected to be blocked by the lords, but the government could be forced into making concessions as it lacks a majority in the upper house.
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The notion of making concessions to a hostile adversary to secure the release of one's fellow citizens has always been controversial, pitting the innate longing to win their freedom against the risk that handing over money or releasing prisoners in exchange will only encourage the captors to seize more.
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China also previously "paid" the United States by making concessions to us in exchange for which we took on the obligations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Articles II and XX – which preclude the US from imposing the recent national security tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum.
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The Israelis disagree — and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long made clear that it wouldn't consider making concessions over Jerusalem, in part because Jews were barred from the Western Wall when the Old City was under Jordanian control in the years before the 1967 war.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - In dozens of conversations, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has counseled President Donald Trump to avoid making concessions to North Korea that could upset East Asia's balance of power, including a military retreat from South Korea that would leave Tokyo alone on the front lines against China's growing power.
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Diplomacy includes making concessions that move all sides toward our ultimate goal; in the case of the Iran deal we clearly would have preferred to get additional concessions from the Iranians about ballistic missile development and other activities, but in order to keep our coalition together we had to be focused and deliberate.
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But senior officials of both governments are set to meet in Washington early next month amid rising economic worries in both countries At a news conference on Thursday, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce indicated that the government was considering making concessions in order to pave the way for more trade talks.
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He noted that the announcement had come at a moment when previously high tensions over trade issues between Mr. Trump and Mr. Trudeau had simmered down, but that Mr. Trudeau, who is facing re-election, might see a political benefit from demonstrating that he was not making concessions to the American president.
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Should it rule against the government, it would probably not stop Brexit; but it could force May into making concessions to lawmakers who oppose a hard break from the EU. A further challenge is to find a solution that keeps Scotland and Northern Ireland, whose populations voted to remain in the EU, on side.
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A draft agreement for peace between the US and the Taliban in Afghanistan got a lot of hopes up late this summer, but the former head of US special operations ― most well known for overseeing the mission that ultimately took out Osama Bin Laden — said that making concessions to the extremist group is the wrong move.
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