Sentences with phrase «big concessions»

First, women made big concessions in spending during the recession, and women make 70 percent of the purchases.

They had to make big concessions for reasons he couldn't understand.

Brexit - bound UK won big concessions for power stations that burn wood, while new research claims the technology will undermine carbon cuts for half a century

These mighty minis prove that a fashionable SUV appearance no longer demands big concessions in expense and consumption.

Despite recognizing last May that Greece needs debt restructuring, some euro zone officials — including the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble - keep a hard stance against big concessions.

Officials like Lighthizer and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are hawks on China, want big concessions, and favor tariffs, while Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow are more inclined to strike a deal with more moderate concessions.

Brexit - bound UK won big concessions for power stations that burn wood, while new research claims the technology will undermine carbon cuts for half a century

And in his $ 20 billion bid to buy Mexico's Grupo Modelo this year, Brito had to make big concessions to antitrust agencies to get his prize.

The company made two big concessions.

A conservative Republican senator from Colorado has wrung a big concession from the administration to protect his state's booming cannabis business.

The democratic countries in the agreement know they could face domestic criticism if they make big concessions to the US at this stage in the process.

If you have watched him make a big concession in a debate, or respond sympathetically to a hostile questioner, or provide a generous account of an opposing view in a book or essay, then you know that his kindliness is often the sign that serious intellectual vivisection is about to commence.

In this situation, the Liberal Democrats would be in a strong bargaining position over Labour: in return for voting to keep the Scots in the Commons, they could win big concessions.

And while some elected officials have credited the tougher negotiations spurred by IZ with yielding greater community benefits, some of the biggest concessions Mr. Constantinides wrung during ULURP will come not from the developer's purse but from the public's.

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Smith's big concession was to drop language in the bill about how NSF builds and manages large scientific facilities that NSF officials say is unreasonable, unnecessary, and in places even contradictory.

The one big concession to older viewers is a presentation of storyboards for three sequences, one which didn't make the final film.

The final accord makes it clear that not only was there no compromise, but Central Falls Superintendent Fran Gallo, who started the negotiation asking for six big concessions, wound up pocketing more than a dozen.

The blunt instrument panel is faced with aluminum trim, and that's the biggest concession to style, although cheap materials have largely been avoided.

But the biggest concession to the mass market is the option of getting the Evo sans a third pedal, with a dual - clutch transmission.

The biggest concession to the wider market (read: automatic - transmission - driving buyers) is the six - speed TC - SST — Twin - Clutch Sportronic Shift Transmis - sion — in the uplevel MR model.

Faced with this outcome, the government might tip the balance in libraries» favour by forcing rightsholders to make big concessions, effectively subsidising libraries and setting up an even stronger competitor for booksellers.

So food (in this case reader eyeballs) is rationed among a small subset of passengers (authors) who agree to make the biggest concessions (exclusivity), and the rest of the passengers are thrown overboard to fend for themselves.

The biggest change this year and the biggest concession to the casual racing gamer is the addition of The Chase mode.

But Spencer has made a big concession that server - based games have to work harder and think harder about the business model, and if it's working well for millions of gamers then smaller studios need a way in too.

Michelle Grattan in The Age noted that «the biggest concessions are the brown ones» and said that «Kevin Rudd has stitched key groups in behind a revised emissions trading deal — both browner and greener than before — to put maximum pressure on Malcolm Turnbull.»

One of the biggest concessions Huawei makes is in the display.

The biggest concession versus more expensive options is how these earbuds charge.

I get the fridges at a discount so can make what appears to be a big concession but is relatively affordable.