The conflict made it more difficult to make peace through the process of granting imperial titles and territorial concessions.

由于这场冲突，人们更难通过授予帝国头衔和在领土上让步这两种方式换取和平了。

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President Obama did, after all, extract more concessions than most of us expected.

奥巴马挤出来的让步，毕竟比我们大多数人所预料的更多。

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Supplier firms have responded by locating more of their factories in low-cost locations and working hard to extract price concessions from their own, upstream suppliers.

供货商公司则压低他们工厂的价格和更加努力至力于向他们上游供货商压价，争取去价格让步。

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Analysts say it remains to be seen whether the Palestinians' unilateral effort to get a U.N.security endorsement of a Palestinian state will be sustained or is no more than a publicity stunt meant to get Israel to make concessions.

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However, Mr Brown's chances of winning any more concessions in negotiations due to culminate in October look very slim.

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Obama is clearly betting that by moving first, he will be able to coerce Netanyahu to make still more concessions of land and principles.

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One answer is that they're not real demands, they're negotiating ploys, designed to drag more reasonable concessions out of the developed world.

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