To help the talks along, both of us should make some concessions.
The suggestion has always been that America could wring concessions from Israel on Palestine in return for a "green light" for an Israeli strike on Iran.
But in refusing to make any back-room concessions to Mr Ozawa, and in seeing off Mr Ozawa's sidekick, Yukio Hatoyama, the former prime minister, he has started to earn back the public's respect.
These concessions could unbar the way to peace.
You see, admitting that one side is willing to make concessions, while the other isn't, would tarnish one's centrist credentials.
There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
He hoped to unnerve Kennedy and force him into concessions.
That could include bold new concessions from the Greeks, such as pledging privatisation proceeds as collateral for new rescue funds.
Over the years, abusive behaviour by the Sri Lankan army and the refusal of the government to offer genuine political concessions to Tamil demands have done much to sustain the dreadful Tigers.
Where they made no concessions, and rightly, was on the matter of the repatriation of prisoners.
I talked him into making concessions on the question.
Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco have so far tentatively agreed. Saudi Arabia has refused, saying Israel has had enough concessions.
The stimulus deal was an unusual display of bipartisanship in Washington, with Democrats and Republicans in the House making concessions to get the deal done quickly.
Yet as the casualties mount and next year's election approaches, Mr Erdogan is unlikely to risk nationalist ire by making more concessions.
But if he is to push Israel into concessions he needs to answer the Hamas conundrum.
it also applies to concessions that people make to one another.
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