As a rare concession to the weather, both stoves were going in the waiting room.

In 1968 he was knighted, and in a rare concession to formality chose to be dubbed 'Sir Francis'.

It was a rare concession to the postwar era.

In a rare concession, he had wiped off his monocle.

In a rare concession, the Burmese government has suspended a long planned and highly controversial hydroelectric dam project in the face of growing public opposition.

No defence counsel was permitted in a treason trial, but in a rare concession Lady Russell was allowed to act as her husband's secretary.

The concert hall, air-conditioned this year in a rare concession to modernity, has cushioned benches and walls paneled with knotty pine.

It was a rare concession for a man to make publicly, and more rare for a leader to admit gratitude to a mere girl.

She also insisted on keeping her mixed doubles date with McEnroe, making no rare concession to age.

Dowling was motivated by her athletic scholarship, the result of a rare concession from the N.C.A.A.