What followed was textbook Yonkers administration: denial, dissembling and, finally, grudging admission that things just might have been handled poorly.

When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned.

Tactics did change, was Jeff's grudging admission.

Under the circumstances, perhaps, rather a grudging admission.

Thus, instead of making a grudging admission that its technology had become obsolete, Warner Brothers purported to be doing the entire movie industry a favor.

But he could see in their faces the grudging admission that the point was valid.

He made the last part sound like a grudging admission.

The ops officer's words had had the sound of cautious, grudging admission.

When we remind him that his career is at stake, he offers only a sobering nod and a grudging admission that this might be true.

"It is," Picard said, his jaw muscles twitching the way they did when he had to make a grudging admission.