However, Mr Brown's chances of winning any more concessions in negotiations due to culminate in October look very slim.
Obama is clearly betting that by moving first, he will be able to coerce Netanyahu to make still more concessions of land and principles.
One answer is that they're not real demands, they're negotiating ploys, designed to drag more reasonable concessions out of the developed world.
The European Commission has threatened to cancel the deal if the United States does not agree to more concessions on foreign operators of domestic routes and foreign ownership by 2010.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister and still the real power of the land, suggested that he wants more concessions.
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When the discussion turned to salary, she made concessions that were more like confessions of wrongdoing.
Such concessions are, evidently, the product of more than simply a presidential determination to "help" Gorbachev.
On the other side, Israelis are questioning more and more the wisdom of giving up the Golan Heights without major concessions from Syria, such as cutting off the lavish support of terrorist networks and reducing the size and scope of the military.
Mr Barak went to Camp David having offered more far-reaching concessions to the Palestinians than any of his predecessors.
Bahraini authorities have offered a number of concessions to try to quell the violence, including granting more oversight powers to the elected parliament.
Clinton's penchant for forcing Israeli concessions to the PLO in the name of peace became more pronounced as things became more difficult for him during his impeachment hearings in 1998.
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They have every reason to believe the concessions now being demanded of the Jewish state will no more require Arab reciprocity in the future than has been the case in the past.
In recent talks in New York, it demanded yet more concessions from America, complaining about the late delivery of fuel oil promised as part of a deal for freezing its nuclear programme.
Many suspect that these oil concessions have more to do with golden pensions for some of the country's top military men than getting the best deal for Nigeria.
The new framework agreement is part of a more gradual process, where trust is slowly built up and both sides make concessions.
However, as Kate Clarke of the Afghanistan Analysts Network argues in a recent blog, although America has made significant concessions, the Afghan government is now far more at the forefront of the struggle against the Taliban, both in political and military terms.
In a legislative breakthrough early Friday, parliament amended the constitution to grant more rights to ethnic Albanians after months of stalling by hardline Macedonian legislators opposed to major concessions to the restive minority.
National vacancy rates soared throughout 2009 and much of 2010, and apartment owners responded by offering greater concessions, decreasing rents and taking on more credit risk.
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Congress and the Obama Administration would probably be willing to sign the check in return for some environmental promises (making more small cars, for instance), some concessions by workers and the departure of the top executives.
Some of the opposition had hoped for just 15 military seats, but agreed to more in return for other concessions.
And it now risks causing more tangible harm as the U.S. agrees to more concessions and extensions--yesterday to one beyond even the earlier "final" deadline of March 17.
The cost, in terms of last-minute concessions to bring over the Bundesrat's supposedly neutral block, is not much more than the extra DM6 billion in tax revenue likely to come from faster-than- expected growth this year.
Such concessions have been met in the past with greater violence, born of the inevitable conclusion that the more terrorism is waged against Israel, the more Israel will be forced to accept the terrorists' demands.
But the converse of this proposition has more immediate relevance: If Israel's neighbours still want to see Israel eliminated, then Israeli concessions may produce negotiated agreements, but they will not produce peace.
Russia is being rewarded for signing onto an arms control agreement they need much more than we do with far-reaching and ominous concessions (notably, deep cuts in the numbers of U.S. missiles and bombers and restrictions on our strategic conventional arms and missile defenses).
Oryx expects to learn more when it drills Banan this year. (See and excellent map of all the Kurdish oil and gas concessions here.) In an optimistic scenario laid out in the Oryx prospectus, Demir Dagh has the potential to give up 215, 000 bpd of oil by 2017, with the entire Hawler block (65% Oryx interest) producing more than 300, 000 bpd by 2018.
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