We and the sponsors made concessions in the drafting of the resolution.

We have made substantial concessions during negotiations on the Protocol before us.

Uganda had made several concessions in the hope of accelerating progress towards that end.

We will always remember the difficult concessions they made in order to reach agreement.

Recently, some concessions were made by the government. They don't have a choice , she points out.

Of that total, 3,374,328 hectares were forest concessions, 973,101 hectares were economic land concessions and 268,316 hectares were mining concessions.

The Swedish government felt that it was in no position to openly contest Germany, and therefore made some concessions.

From its own experiences in the twentieth century, Europe knows what catastrophes can result when concessions are made to evil.

The adoption of the text was the result of a lengthy negotiation process in which all parties made important concessions.

Just before last year's trade talks in Cancun, the US made some concessions, so that it was no longer the only holdout.

It also recently signed new mining concessions for bauxite, in addition to existing concessions for diamonds, titanium, and gold.

Here again, in order to promote consensus, concessions have been made, and the original negotiating mandate has been limited to a discussion mandate.

Hollande, too, will have to make concessions.

In Brazil, the television channels are public concessions.

The drafting of the text had been possible only because several States belonging to different legal systems and regions had made considerable concessions and shown great flexibility.

Mr. Caruana emphasized that sovereignty was altogether a different matter upon which concessions would not be made and should not be expected as part of this process.

Calling for Israeli concessions is perfectly legitimate, even necessary.

That will require both sides to make substantial concessions.

Major economic and geopolitical concessions were offered to both suitors.

Then there are a variety of concessions, exemptions, and surcharges.

In particular, they allow for the removal of concessions when exports increase, exempt sensitive items and reduce the effective scope of preferences while still extracting concessions unrelated to trade.14

As a country in the process of joining WTO Belarus noted with satisfaction that its member States recognized the necessity of taking into account the significant concessions made by new members.

No one should be deceived by any concessions that the Kremlin makes.

The Frente POLISARIO could not be asked to make any more concessions.

In addition, the world didn t reward Israel for making concessions and taking risks.

Mutual concessions can be crafted that ensure negligible political fallout for both leaders.

But, for Khamenei, nuclear concessions might also undermine his monopoly over domestic politics.

They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate .

They want you to make concessions to them and then they will reciprocate .

The committee then established criteria for maintaining or revoking concessions (see annex V).

Can he make sufficient concessions on borders and Jerusalem? Similar doubts apply to Abbas.

So it was no surprise that itdid not, despite the concessions that were made at the meeting in Kazakhstan by the P5 1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany).

The EU must promote democratic development in neighboring countries without expecting or demanding reciprocal concessions.

The international community expects them to make additional efforts and to agree to mutual concessions.

The Millennium Development Goals are achievable, so long as we all make efforts and concessions.

Before the Western powers, Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong to be returned to China.

(d) Improving budgetary and expenditure processes, procurement and concessions practices and the Sierra Leone revenue base

Agreement was reached on the launching of negotiations regarding the question of trade concessions, one of the four questions which were left, by agreement, outside the scope of the Doha Programme of Action investment, competition, trade and environment and trade concessions.

The left offered big concessions and was ready to take high risks for the sake of peace.

Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firmness rather than concessions.

Russia, France, and Germany (and later Italy) also had been pressing the Ottoman government for railway concessions.

Also, attempts to obtain oil concessions from the Ottoman government added to the complexity of commercial arrangements.

(b) Strive to reach agreements with the peoples concerned, as far as possible, before awarding any concessions

One of the iron ore concessions in Sierra Leone is estimated to hold 10.5 billion tons of ore.

Yet Hamas continues to reject territorial concessions, insisting that all of historic Palestine must be under Muslim jurisdiction.