Sentences with phrase «if grudging»

But deep down, the fans from both camps have great, if grudging, respect for the other club.

Not exact matches

After a slow and grudging response to the initial revelations, Cameron finally published six years of personal tax returns at the weekend, and for good measure Monday promised new legislation to make companies criminally liable if they fail to stop their employees laundering money on clients» behalf.

Which brings me back to the suspicion, voiced at the outset, that the enormousness, if not enormity, of the PTL enterprise compels a certain grudging respect.

Otherwise any grudging amendments will be reversed by the Government if the bill is allowed to become law.

The electorate might yet be browbeaten into Remain but if so, it'd be a grudging and resentful remain, bought out of fear and against emotional instinct, and with an inherent expiry date.

But I have developed the grudging respect, if not the taste, for the ebullience - ABullience?

That welcome might be a bit more grudging if you are self - published.

I can't help believing that Hoyland must have seen Frankenthaler's work, too, even if he failed to mention it to Gooding (this wouldn't be the first time that she's been left out of discussions of color - field painting, beyond the usual brief & grudging references to the fact that she started the whole school).

If they feel strongly enough to pay those penalties, they sometimes earn the grudging respect of those who disagree with them.