Yet they were also prepared to make concessions to the Shia, the country's majority group.
To win in the lower house, he will have to make concessions to the left.
To win over the upper house, he will have to make concessions to the right.
It has yet to be determined who will have to make concessions to ease their debt burden.
For its part, the NFIB has shown its willingness to make concessions to push health care legislation forward.
Schroder is not weighed down by Kohl's wartime memories and is less inclined to make concessions to the French leader.
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Firms often aim to restrain their rivals by tying them up in lawsuits or forcing them to make concessions to appease regulators.
The State Department says it does not make concessions to terrorists.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the prospect of a referendum would create further "economic uncertainty" and urged David Cameron to "show leadership" rather than make concessions to his backbenchers.
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Mr Barak, whose government only just survived a coalition crisis last week, is under pressure from some of his coalition partners to not to make concessions to the Palestinians.
One piece of good news for the car giants is that the United Auto Workers (UAW) said on December 3rd that it was prepared to make concessions to help them.
Obama has also repeatedly demonstrated that compelling Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians and empowering international institutions that seek to delegitimize Israel are his preferred means of advancing this goal.
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He may be forced to make concessions to them.
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But it would take very advanced wheeler-dealing skills to make concessions to Sinn Fein which didn't alienate the DUP and maybe other Ulster parties....back in 1979, one reason for the fall of Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government was that concessions to the Ulster Unionists had alienated the SDLP's Gerry Fitt, who had been a natural Labour supporter.
Mr Aznar is loth to make concessions even to the non-violent Basque nationalists, especially if Mr Arzalluz remains their leader.
Shaiken says the union is willing to make concessions now to try to help the company survive so it can avoid massive layoffs later.
"The government would have to back off these high-powered remedies and Microsoft would have to make additional concessions" to make a settlement possible, he said.
As far as Obama and his advisers are concerned, Israel's refusal to make further concessions to the Palestinians will be the cause for whatever transpires.
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They should assume that Obama's Middle East envoy George Mitchell will intensify his pressure - and escalate his threats - on Israel to make massive concessions to the Palestinians.
The idea is that during that time, the US and the Europeans will place massive pressure on Israel to make more concessions to the Palestinians in order to restart stillborn negotiations.
With Labour's finances in such a mess, Mr Brown may for all his tough talk have to make some concessions to the unions, even if it evokes uncomfortable memories of the 1970s.
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But Russia, though it is a long-standing friend of the Serbs, failed to get them to make enough concessions to avert this crisis, and it seems to have been no more successful this time.
Under the circumstances, the United States should not be urging, much less pressuring, Israel to make unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinian Authority in the hopes that this will keep the peace process on track.
Washington wants Arab leaders to persuade the new Palestinian government to stop supporting militant groups that carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and make it impossible for Israel to make the concessions needed to get the talks going.
Many governments, however, including the United States, refuse to pay ransoms or make other concessions to kidnappers.
For instance, greater Indian confidence may, just possibly, mean daring to make concessions in order to reach a deal with China over their disputed border.
But even many Democrats have shown little interest in extending the credit, and the White House might have to be willing to make concessions in order to preserve it.
Microsoft has already had to make concessions on price to fend off competition from Google, offering consumers a stripped down, ad supported version of Office for free via the web.
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As Netanyahu prepared to fly off to Washington, Abbas made clear that he will not make any concessions to Israel for peace.
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Yet neither countries' leaders are willing or able to make the concessions needed to strike a deal.
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