This is the moment when the Lords' power is at its greatest, when brinkmanship by the Opposition or rebel groups can force ministers into concessions, for fear of losing an entire piece of legislation because it's not agreed as the session ends.
Any government defeats on the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill or any other bill could be leveraged into concessions as the year totters to its end - particularly if there's a bit of intra-Coalition tension around the subject at issue.
No Turkish politician in power has ever risked being seen to prod Mr Denktash into making concessions.
Last week, an opinion poll in the West Bank and Gaza showed he had the support of only 32% of Palestinians, and that nearly 50% believed he would wilt into making concessions in the hothouse of Camp David.
Obama is so averse to acting against the will of the UN that he is trying to strong-arm Israel into making suicidal concessions to the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority.
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The next step, says Daniel Fitzpatrick, a law professor at New York University who has researched land in Timor-Leste, is working out how to put concessions into practice.
Because American never filed for bankruptcy, its pilots' deal doesn't extend as long as agreements for other legacy carriers that negotiated concessions into 2009 as part of their plans to emerge from Chapter 11.
Sources within the dairy industry dismissed talk of a milk shortage as a scare story, put about to frighten dairy companies into making price concessions just as negotiations get under way for long term supply contracts.
Unfortunately, Germany did not understand that Britain did not have a lien on the whole world, and that (British interests apart) the views of other powers had to be taken into account, so that the desired territorial concessions could not be slipped into Germany's pocket without demur.
America Movil issued a statement Wednesday saying it had been informed by Cofetel that the fine had been reversed, without going into detail about the concessions the company had made.
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Far from deflecting pressure on Israel to make further concessions, it trapped Israel into a position that serves none of its vital interests.
It is hard to see what concessions might turn a No into a subsequent Yes: the only conceivable new opt-out is from the Schengen frontier-free travel zone, and that would break up the long-established Nordic passport union.
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The taxman may have to admit defeat in this dispute but he has managed to gain a number of concessions from Andronikou (a thorough investigation into what has happened at Fratton Park over the last few years being the most valuable) and sent a clear message to the rest of football: pay your taxes.
The Fisheries Act, which is due to come into force in January, grants big companies 25-year concessions around fishing farms.
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That way, we can identify what compromises and concessions have been made to squeeze the iPad experience into a smaller body.
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It is bad enough that the Bush administration has resumed its earlier effort briefly suspended after the covert shipment to the PA of Iranian arms aboard the Karine A was discovered to euchre Israel into making further political and, in due course, territorial concessions to Yasser Arafat.
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Google has proposed a package of concessions as it seeks to end a long-running investigation into its European search business.
It has also put forward a list of 14 big items, from trade concessions to visa-free travel, that it wants brought into the negotiations.
As for the Democrats, it is hard to imagine that after the concessions they just made on spending, their panel members would buy into any tax reform unless it reduces the deficit.
"Here I was doing all the advertising and legwork to get fans into the arena, and Boston University was getting all of the revenues from parking and concessions, " he says.
But many have shifted into merely collecting rents from property and related businesses (ports, hotels, retail) or from government concessions (electricity, telecommunications, gas, casino licences).
In Proclamation 7826 of October 4, 2004, consistent with the 2004 Agreement, the President determined, pursuant to section 4(b) of the USIFTA Act, that it was necessary in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to Israel provided for by the USIFTA, to provide duty-free access into the United States through December 31, 2008, for specified quantities of certain agricultural products of Israel.
In order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions with respect to agricultural trade with Israel, on July 27, 2004, the United States entered into an agreement with Israel concerning certain aspects of trade in agricultural products during the period January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2008 (the "2004 Agreement").
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