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

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

In part, this reflects political hedging by the MILF in the face of Manila s incapacity to make meaningful concessions.

At the same time, Armenia has rejected any proposal, which required excessive political concessions in exchange for participation in certain energy projects.

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

Hollande, too, will have to make concessions.

In Brazil, the television channels are public concessions.

Admittedly, Israeli governments have never liked the idea of negotiating peace with all enemies simultaneously, if only because the political costs of the required concessions would be unbearable.

In the event, Zhao Ziyang s conciliatory approach, which might have led to concessions, which in turn might have opened possibilities for a more open political system, lost out.

Calling for Israeli concessions is perfectly legitimate, even necessary.

That will require both sides to make substantial concessions.

Given the recent history of the country, we again urge the Haitian political class to make the political concessions necessary to facilitate the establishment of institutions that will promote the return of peace and stability in the country after the elections.

Major economic and geopolitical concessions were offered to both suitors.

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

There was a very wide gap between the expressed political commitment to the Round and willingness to make the kinds of concessions which would give a major boost to the process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Will Netanyahu abandon his ideological rhetoric, negotiate seriously with the Palestinians, and make the needed concessions? Can the Palestinians rise to the political moment and take advantage of the pressure coming from US President Barack Obama?

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

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.

Calls on both sides to participate in constructive negotiations towards a political settlement of the conflict and to spare no efforts to overcome their ongoing mutual mistrust and underlines that the process of negotiation leading to a lasting political settlement acceptable to both sides will require concessions from both sides

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.

For terrorists, it is an attractive way to raise money, as well as to force political concessions, and although no Government will readily admit to giving in on either count, some groups have become well funded through this activity.

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

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

In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers. Domestic political pressure became a source of heightened international tension.

If Barack Obama s administration plays its hand well, the result will be a last minute extension of the debt ceiling with no significant concessions. It is unclear how Boehner or anyone else would be able to portray that as a political victory.