conceding that

In a message sent to all museum staff on Wednesday, which was shared with Slate, Bunch reiterated the Smithsonian’s commitment to intellectual honesty and integrity while subtly conceding that the institution’s collections “may evolve to reflect new discoveries and insights” and that the institution “cannot know what future critiques will hold.”

It was a roundabout way of conceding that after several hours of talks, there's no deal.

That means not conceding that a handful of trans athletes in a nation of some 350 million people is a crisis that demands national politicians rolling back their support for a persecuted minority.

Because the show frames the debate as a negotiation in which losing would mean conceding that he and those like him aren’t real Americans, can Hasan even “win”?

Still, there are levers Democrats can pull, like when New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor for 25 hours to rail against the Trump administration, while also conceding that his party has made some serious mistakes.