" He conceded defeat readily, but "with a heavy heart.
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His two rivals from the mainstream political parties conceded defeat.
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Outgoing Liberal Premier Colin Barnett conceded defeat on Saturday evening.
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After several more emails back and forth, I conceded defeat.
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He conceded defeat to Barrow but backtracked a week later.
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Yameen conceded defeat on Monday, a day after the election.
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Erdogan conceded defeat on Twitter Sunday night, congratulating the winner.
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Jammeh conceded defeat but now says he will not step down.
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Turnbull's speech came after opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten conceded defeat.
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And today Seides conceded defeat, writing about his experience on Bloomberg.
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Every modern presidential runner-up has conceded defeat to the winner.
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Mr. Clinton conceded defeat and pulled out the entire American operation.
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Mr. Yameen finally conceded defeat Monday afternoon at a news conference.
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In an emotional address to supporters, Macri conceded defeat on Sunday evening.
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Le Pen conceded defeat in a telephone call shortly after 210 p.m.
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About a half-hour before midnight, Taylor called Luria and conceded defeat.
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Still, the auto industry has hardly conceded defeat, several industry officials said.
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Mr. Hamon conceded defeat on Sunday, throwing his support behind Mr. Macron.
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London (CNN Business)Chevron has conceded defeat in the battle for Anadarko Petroleum.
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An emotional Poroshenko conceded defeat to his supporters, some of whom were crying.
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Even more surprisingly—and to his great credit—Mr Jammeh quickly conceded defeat.
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With eight months left before the decade was up, Mr Seides conceded defeat.
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TURKEY'S RULING AK party never conceded defeat in Istanbul's mayoral election in March.
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Nationalist Party chief Simon Busuttil called Muscat and conceded defeat on Sunday morning.
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One election winner, Al Gore, even famously conceded defeat to the runner-up.
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The No. 7 seed Belinda Bencic conceded defeat because of an injury. (REUTERS)
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Opponents conceded defeat but warned that the new regulations would undermine traditional values.
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Rahul Gandhi, leader of the Congress Party, conceded defeat in a speech Thursday evening.
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Hofer conceded defeat in a post in German on his Facebook page on Monday.
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Within two hours of polls closing, three of his main rivals had conceded defeat.
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Stumbo conceded defeat to Republican Larry Brown just over an hour after polls closed.
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But on May 19th he publicly conceded defeat in the Open Society Foundations investigation.
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The opposition Labor party has conceded defeat and Bill Shorten stepped down as its leader.
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Sony conceded defeat in early 2015, ditching its own program for a Spotify-backed service.
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Vice President Joseph Boakai conceded defeat, urging his supporters to rally behind the president-elect.
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Alaphilippe, speaking from Val d'Isere, where the riders took shelter in a tunnel, conceded defeat.
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Bevin conceded defeat on Thursday after a recanvass of votes showed no change in results.
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Mr. Saar congratulated Mr. Netanyahu and conceded defeat in a televised statement an hour later.
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"I can't sleep because of joy," said Sanneh, who wept when Jammeh conceded defeat last Friday.
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So when I subsequently examined two DNA profiles with similarly distant matches, I quickly conceded defeat.
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The Save the 8th campaign supporting the No vote conceded defeat earlier, with #Repealedthe8th trending worldwide.
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He initially conceded defeat but a week later contested the result and called for another poll.
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The Supreme Court narrowly squelched those efforts in June; Trump ultimately conceded defeat earlier this month.
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Opposition candidate Ricardo Anaya also conceded defeat and said he called Lopez Obrador to congratulate him.
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In a surprise result, Yameen lost his re-election bid last month and initially conceded defeat.
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He beat out Muharrem Ince, who conceded defeat after winning only 30.6 percent of the vote.
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On Saturday night, he conceded defeat and said he would no longer serve as opposition leader.
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Crowley conceded defeat in the primaries, even dedicating a guitar performance to his opponent that night.
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Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo (D) conceded defeat in his eastern Floyd and Pike County district.
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Long-ruling Jammeh had conceded defeat publicly last week after his narrow loss to opposition leader Barrow.
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In a 19299 radio address, Winston Churchill conceded defeat in his efforts to understand Stalin's Soviet Union.
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" Mr. Macron's prime minister, Édouard Philippe, conceded defeat and said that he received "these results with humility.
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Sobotka conceded defeat, saying it was a message for the party to search for new program ideas.
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Earlier in the day, candidates Mar Roxas and Grace Poe both conceded defeat to the Davao City mayor.
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Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the leader of Denmark's governing centre-right coalition, conceded defeat in the country's general election.
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Denmark: The prime minister conceded defeat Wednesday after general elections in which left-leaning parties made large gains.
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A scheduled third round of voting was cancelled when Mohamud conceded defeat after Farmajo took a decisive lead.
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Anti-abortion activists conceded defeat early on Saturday as their opponents expressed astonishment at the scale of their victory.
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His closest rival, Socialist Antonio Sampaio da Novoa, conceded defeat after picking up around 23 percent of the vote.
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She conceded defeat in a statement at 8 pm shortly after the polls closed in New Hampshire Tuesday night.
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Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup, initially conceded defeat to opposition rival Adama Barrow in the Dec.
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On Sunday, the workers received news that, pending a vote, New England's top grocery store chain had conceded defeat.
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The third top vote-getter — William M. Daley, a member of Chicago's political dynasty of Daleys — earlier conceded defeat.
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Although that did not give Blatter the winning margin he needed, Ali conceded defeat before a second round was held.
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Hofer conceded defeat in a post on his Facebook page, thanking his supporters and telling them not to be despondent.
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A last plea to the sweet grandmother of the ganja in the corner and we conceded defeat—rules are rules.
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Saied's opponent Nabil Karoui conceded defeat earlier on Monday and the electoral commission said turnout was 55% of the vote.
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On Friday, March 24 House Speaker Paul Ryan stood up at a press conference on Capitol Hill and conceded defeat.
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Jammeh initially conceded defeat and pledged on state television to work with Barrow in the run-up to his inauguration.
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Republican Martha McSally conceded defeat, bringing an end to the long-fought battle over the seat held by retiring GOP Sen.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Maldives President Abdulla Yameen conceded defeat to opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Monday in a presidential election.
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At that point, we conceded defeat, put on some Leonard Cohen, and Tim rolled a double-skinner with his homegrown hash.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish presidential candidate Pekka Haavisto conceded defeat in Sunday's elections after incumbent Sauli Niinisto's emerged with a strong lead.
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A month after election day, Pat McCrory, the Republican governor of North Carolina, conceded defeat to Roy Cooper, his Democratic rival.
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Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson has conceded defeat on his promise to take the UK out of the EU by Oct.
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Jammeh initially conceded defeat in the poll, which was seen as a triumph for democracy in the country of 1.8 million.
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France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has conceded defeat in the race to choose the conservative nominee for next year's presidential election.
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In the final hours of the workday, President Trump conceded defeat and agreed when Speaker Ryan said to pull the bill.
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Mr. Bevin conceded defeat Thursday as a recanvass of the state's votes made clear that Andy Beshear, the attorney general, won.
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Now, after months of trying and failing to put a government together, Sánchez conceded defeat ahead of the September 23 deadline.
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On Friday, Republican incumbent Mimi Walters conceded defeat to Democratic candidate Katie Porter in the race for California's 45th congressional district.
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Top rival's concession Duterte's closest rival, Mar Roxas, conceded defeat Tuesday, following Grace Poe, a senator who had exited the race earlier.
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Both Anaya and candidate José Antonio Meade, trailing in third, conceded defeat to López Obrador shortly after the preliminary result was announced.
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Uber lost $1 billion a year connecting cabs and passengers in the People's Republic, before it conceded defeat to rival Didi Chuxing.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main election challenger, the Blue and White party, on Wednesday conceded defeat in Israel's general election.
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In the capital, the Law and Justice candidate conceded defeat, after exit polls suggested he lost by more than 20 percentage points.
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On Tuesday night, Dona Scott, whose husband, Sam, was Mr. Daley's campaign chairman, lingered after Mr. Daley conceded defeat from a stage.
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Once they conceded defeat on health care, they would only really need one reconciliation bill to try to do tax reform with.
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Republican U.S. Representative Karen Handel conceded defeat to Democrat Lucy McBath, a gun control advocate, in a suburban Atlanta district on Thursday.
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Kris Kobach became the Republican candidate for governor in Kansas after the incumbent, Jeff Colyer, conceded defeat in the recent close-run primary.
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Salvador Nasralla conceded defeat in Honduras's presidential election, held in November, after America recognised the incumbent president, Juan Orlando Hernández, as the victor.
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McCrory conceded defeat earlier this month after Cooper's lead grew to more than 10,85033 votes, out of more than 2.6 million votes cast.
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Conservative candidate Francois Fillon has conceded defeat in the French presidential election and has asked his supporters to reject a far-right leadership.
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In a press conference Sunday, leader of the Labor Party Bill Shorten conceded defeat and said he had called Turnbull to congratulate him.
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Matt Bevin, a Republican, conceded defeat after a recanvass of last week's election results confirmed the victory of his Democratic opponent, Andy Beshear.
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Today, it appears the Likud Party that Netanyahu leads has the seats it needs to retain power after its main rival conceded defeat.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan even gave a press conference in late March where he conceded defeat, declaring Obamacare the law of the land.
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The opposition candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, led with 193 percent, compared with 219 percent for Mr. Erdogan's chosen candidate, Binali Yildirim, who conceded defeat.
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After No. 12 seed Clemson fell to fifth-seeded Duke, 79-72, on Wednesday, Brad Brownell, the Tigers' coach, all but conceded defeat.
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Supporters of African democracy cheered when its strongman, Yahya Jammeh, conceded defeat in the country's presidential election just days before the vote in Ghana.
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Rousseff's Workers Party conceded defeat when it was clear there was no chance of preventing pro-impeachment support reaching the necessary two-thirds majority.
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Haldex has been pursued for more than a year, with Knorr-Bremse left as the sole bidder last October after ZF Friedrichshafen conceded defeat.
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Yameen conceded defeat after an official count showed joint opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had polled 16.8 percent more votes in a surprise result.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered the biggest defeat of his political career as his candidate for Istanbul mayor conceded defeat in a repeat election.
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Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition Congress Party, conceded defeat on Thursday after it was clear that Mr. Modi's party had swept the election.
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"I'm sending her a bouquet of flowers because I think the first Slovak female president deserves one," Mr. Sefcovic said as he conceded defeat.
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Republicans may have conceded defeat in their legislative effort to get rid of Obamacare, but their guerrilla war to achieve its demise remains underway.
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Bernie Sanders hasn't yet conceded defeat in the Democratic primary because he's waiting for Hillary Clinton to be indicted, Donald Trump suggested on Saturday.
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Senate Republicans, after a mad dash to revive a last-ditch Obamacare repeal plan before a September 30 deadline, have conceded defeat once again.
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Fajardo conceded defeat but showed no sign of who he&aposll support in a runoff where his 4.5 million supporters are likely to be decisive.
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Just over a month ago, Avengers: Endgame fans conceded defeat to James Cameron's 2009 Avatar, acknowledging it would remain the biggest movie of all time.
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Details: Maros Sefcovic, vice president the EU's European Commission, conceded defeat to his political novice rival after the liberal lawyer won 58% of the vote.
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The atrocities were partly responsible for spawning the bittereinders ("bitter-enders"), the Boer militiamen who refused to lay down arms when their leaders conceded defeat.
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The runner-up in Peru's presidential contest conceded defeat on Friday, paving the way for a former finance minister to become the country's next leader.
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Erdoğan and his cronies grudgingly conceded defeat in the other two, but for them Istanbul was simply too large of a political prize to abandon.
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Her rival, Roberto Giachetti of the Democratic Party, who was backed by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, conceded defeat less than an hour after polls closed.
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Jammeh, in power since a 1994 coup, initially conceded defeat to Barrow before back-tracking, saying the vote was flawed and demanding a new ballot.
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The preferred candidate of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan conceded defeat on Sunday in the race for Istanbul mayor, a repeat of a vote in March.
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Rahul Gandhi, the head of Congress and the great-grandson of India's first prime minister, conceded defeat in a brief news conference in New Delhi.
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A week after Republicans conceded defeat in their attempt to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, that constituted a step forward in their new legislative quest.
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Norbert Hofer, the candidate for the Freedom Party of Austria, conceded defeat on Sunday after losing the election to independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen.
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Matt Bevin conceded defeat on Thursday, ceding to Democrat Andy Beshear after a recanvass of last week's election showed Bevin trailing Beshear by 5,136 votes.
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Two losing opposition candidates, Henri Falcon in Lara state and Alejandro Feo La Cruz in Carabobo, have conceded defeat, breaking with the official coalition position.
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The Palmetto state didn't come through, even with cameos on the campaign trail by George W., and Jeb conceded defeat tonight in a speech to supporters.
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Castillo conceded defeat on Sunday after the preliminary results were announced, saying he would support the re-election of Hernandez, a highly controversial issue in Honduras.
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As Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton privately conceded defeat to President-Elect Donald Trump, one of her biggest celebrity supporters took to the streets in protest.
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In New Jersey, Republican incumbent Tom MacArthur conceded defeat late on Wednesday to Democratic candidate Andy Kim in the race for the state's 3rd congressional district.
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Poroshenko, who conceded defeat but said he planned to stay in politics, said on social media he thought Zelenskiy's win would spark celebrations in the Kremlin.
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Poroshenko, who conceded defeat but said he planned to stay in politics, said on social media he thought Zelenskiy's win would spark celebrations in the Kremlin.
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Eric Chu, the Nationalist Party candidate in Taiwan's presidential election conceded defeat late Saturday and congratulated rival Tsai Ing-wen on her victory, the agency added.
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Nelson has not conceded defeat and has hired Marc Elias, the prominent Democratic lawyer behind several previous recount battles, to handle any potential state-run review.
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As of Monday night, results from the High Election Council had still not been fully released and Mr. Erdogan's party had not conceded defeat in Istanbul.
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Luis Lacalle Pou, the son of a former president, will take office after his rival conceded defeat, four days after a close and contentious runoff election.
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A leading anti-repeal group, Save the 22018th, has conceded defeat, and Irish politicians are already discussing next steps for moving to a legal abortion regime.
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Mayor Lin Chia-lung conceded defeat to his challenger from the China-friendly opposition Kuomintang Party, Lu Shiow-yen, in comments carried live on Taiwanese television channels.
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Celebrations erupted across the tiny West African nation last week when Jammeh unexpectedly conceded defeat after the elections commission announced the victory of opposition candidate Adama Barrow.
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Labor conceded defeat even with several seats in the 151-seat House of Representatives too close to call and millions of early votes still to be counted.
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But then last week, he abruptly changed course and effectively conceded defeat, saying the administration would find other ways to determine the citizenship of the U.S. population.
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The bidding for Haldex started over a year ago with Knorr-Bremse left as the sole bidder since October after rival German suitor ZF Friedrichshafen conceded defeat.
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian conceded defeat on behalf of the party in a news conference, saying her government had heard the "strong message" the voters had sent.
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But Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer has instead conceded defeat after exit polls showed an apparent win for his rival, Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen.
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America's Justice Department conceded defeat after a federal appeals-court dismissed its attempt to overturn at&t's merger with Time Warner, describing the government's arguments as "unpersuasive".
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Haldex has been pursued for more than a year, with Knorr-Bremse left as the sole bidder last October after rival German suitor ZF Friedrichshafen conceded defeat.
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Jeff Colyer conceded defeat to Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a week after their state's primary left the two candidates separated by just a few hundred votes.
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While the win probability in that scenario was already not great, punting essentially conceded defeat, especially as the Steelers put the game away on their ensuing possession.
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In the race for the Croat seat, Dragan Covic, the hard-line incumbent who shares Mr. Dodik's goal of further fragmenting Bosnia into ethnic enclaves, conceded defeat.
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"Changing Budapest and the major cities is the first step toward changing Hungary," he said as 71-year-old Tarlos, the Budapest mayor since 2010, conceded defeat.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party conceded defeat on Saturday in presidential elections, offering congratulations to opposition candidate Tsai Ing-wen from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
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Jerusalem (CNN)Benjamin Netanyahu was on course to secure a record fifth term as Israeli Prime Minister after his main election rival conceded defeat on Wednesday evening.
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Yameen conceded defeat in last month's election after an official count showed joint opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had polled 16.8 percent more votes in a surprise result.
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Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia since taking power in a 1994 coup and is accused of widespread rights abuses, initially conceded defeat to his main challenger, Adama Barrow.
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Also potentially important is that conservative candidate Francois Fillon endorsed the centrist Macron — rather than the fellow conservative Le Pen — as he conceded defeat Sunday evening local time.
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Martha McSally (R-AZ), who conceded defeat on November 12 in her Senate race against Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, said in March that California "sanctuary cities" were endangering Arizona.
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Every election result has been contested since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, with the exception of the 2015 vote in which Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to Buhari.
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In the Senate, Democrats secured a second gain on Wednesday, when Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte conceded defeat in New Hampshire to challenger Maggie Hassan, the state's Democratic governor.
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Benny Gantz, a centrist former military chief and Mr. Netanyahu's main rival, conceded defeat on Wednesday, paving the way for Mr. Netanyahu to become Israel's longest-serving leader.
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Addressing a crush of cameras and supporters who spilled out of a hotel ballroom, a subdued Mr. Ossoff tried to strike a hopeful note as he conceded defeat.
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In fact, that election is regarded as among the swiftest and most peaceable in Philippine history: The ballots were counted promptly, and most losing candidates readily conceded defeat.
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Senate Republicans appear to have conceded defeat on repealing ObamaCare this year, as the newly released budget resolution for fiscal year 2018 focuses almost entirely on tax reform.
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A YouGov opinion poll released after polling stations closed in Britain on June 23, 2016 showed a narrow win for "Remain" and arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage conceded defeat.
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Netanyahu, ubiquitous on the airwaves and social media, emerged from the campaign hoarse and subdued, giving a downbeat post-election address that neither claimed victory nor conceded defeat.
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FMLN candidate Hugo Martinez conceded defeat shortly after Bukele's victory speech while ARENA candidate Carlos Calleja said he recognized the election results and would call Bukele to offer congratulations.
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Grace Poe, a popular senator, won more than a fifth of the votes counted but conceded defeat to Duterte and said his lead reflected the will of the people.
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Mattek-Sands, however, kept her cool, despite Kvitova's minibreak and watched as the Czech conceded defeat with her ninth double fault, leaving her to plan her return to Wimbledon.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Panamanian presidential hopeful Romulo Roux, a former foreign minister under past President Ricardo Martinelli, conceded defeat to U.S.-educated political veteran Laurentino "Nito" Cortizo on Monday.
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The second seat in the running in the Val d'Oise area north of Paris was lost by Macron's candidate, who conceded defeat to her conservative rival late on Sunday.
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ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey suffered the biggest defeat of his political career on Sunday as his candidate for Istanbul mayor conceded defeat in a repeat election.
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Every election result has been contested unsuccessfully since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, with the exception of the 2015 poll in which Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to Buhari.
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Han, of the Kuomintang (KMT) party and the main opponent to Tsai, conceded defeat Saturday in a speech to supporters, adding that he had called Tsai to congratulate her.
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Uruguay shifts right: Luis Lacalle Pou will be the new president after the candidate of the center-left coalition that has governed the country for 15 years conceded defeat.
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She conceded defeat in several traditionally CDU strongholds in the state elections earlier this year, and acknowledged that her position on refugees had contributed to her decrease in support.
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At a meeting of EU leaders this month in Bratislava, German Chancellor Angela Merkel conceded defeat in her year-long quest to convince Berlin's EU partners to accept migrant quotas.
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Mr Sarkozy conceded defeat graciously in a televised address, saying that he harboured "no bitterness, no sadness", and would back Mr Fillon in the run-off vote on November 27th.
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Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup, initially conceded defeat to opposition rival Adama Barrow but then called for fresh elections, drawing condemnation from local opponents and foreign powers.
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Le Pen said there are similarities between Trump's platform and that of her own party Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy conceded defeat, in the first round of presidential primary voting.
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Trump tweeted tributes to two foes he had furiously criticized during the midterms -- Democratic gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams of Georgia and Andrew Gillum of Florida after they formally conceded defeat.
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After Clinton conceded defeat early on Wednesday, Trump took a far more conciliatory tone than he had often displayed during his campaign, promising to be a president for all Americans.
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Yemen's interior minister, Ahmed al-Maysary, called it a "successful coup", as he conceded defeat in a video before joining the rest of Hadi's government in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
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MALÉ, Maldives — The Maldives' Elections Commission on Monday declared a resounding presidential election victory for the opposition candidate, and after hours of tense waiting, the country's authoritarian incumbent conceded defeat.
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MONTEVIDEO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Uruguay's conservative opposition party claimed victory as the official count of Sunday's presidential election concluded on Thursday, and the candidate of the governing party conceded defeat.
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KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan opposition candidate Han Kuo-yu conceded defeat on Saturday in the island's presidential election, offering his congratulations to President Tsai Ing-wen for winning re-election.
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SPD state premier Hannelore Kraft quickly conceded defeat and said she would stand down as her party's local leader, which analysts called an attempt to shield Schulz from the fallout.
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He has long led the polls here by wide margins, and even as he conceded defeat in Iowa, Mr. Trump bragged that he was ahead in New Hampshire by 28 points.
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Five-times major champion Mickelson won 1-up when Berger conceded defeat after injuring his wrist when he struck a rock trying to play his second shot at the final hole.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN)Argentine President Mauricio Macri conceded defeat to his center-left rival Alberto Fernandez late Sunday after the first round of voting in the country's closely fought election.
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Outgoing President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, whose administration faced public and Western criticism for corruption scandals, conceded defeat as it became clear he could not win in a third round of voting.
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Rivals Ricardo Anaya, a former head of the center-right National Action Party (PAN), and ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Jose Antonio Meade, conceded defeat within minutes of exit polls.
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Ever since 2628, when Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams in the first presidential transfer of party power, candidates have graciously conceded defeat and fostered the peaceful transition that anchors American democracy.
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But the president last week conceded defeat over the citizenship question, instead signing the executive order on collecting citizenship information through other means — the original recommendation made by the Census Bureau.
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Novo Nordisk conceded defeat, saying it could not justify the knock-out price being paid by Sanofi for Ablynx, which is developing a prized experimental drug for a rare blood disorder.
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Unlike Presidents Clinton and Bush, who conceded defeat when it became clear that their initiatives lacked legislative support, Mr. Trump has refused to accept the failure of his border wall project.
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Novo Nordisk conceded defeat, saying it could not justify the knock-out price being paid by Sanofi for Ablynx, which is developing a prized experimental drug for a rare blood disorder.
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The administration conceded defeat against Washington State after losing an appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and it lost an appeal of a Hawaii judge's ruling on the travel ban.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition presidential candidate conceded defeat on Monday in an election he described as "unjust" and warned that the country was entering a dangerous regime of one-man rule.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Nabil Karoui on Monday conceded defeat in Sunday's presidential election, issuing a statement of congratulations to his opponent Kais Saied, whom exit polls had earlier showed winning by a landslide.
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Weeks after voting in the primaries ended, Bernie Sanders hasn't conceded defeat and hasn't officially endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (though he has said he'll vote for her against Donald Trump).
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Just hours after the polls closed, the governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, conceded defeat to his main challenger, Anies Baswedan, a former minister of education, who had a commanding lead in the voting.
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But in the last race, when they also made the better start, the loss of Outteridge overboard threw the crew and they were unable to get back up to speed and conceded defeat.
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Jammeh had conceded defeat on state TV last week, prompting wild celebrations over the defeat of a government that human rights groups accused of detaining, torturing and killing opponents during the president's rule.
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ABORTION REFERENDUM IN IRELAND LIKELY TO RESULT IN REPEAL OF BAN, EXIT POLLS SUGGEST Earlier Saturday, a leading anti-abortion group called the vote a "tragedy of historic proportions" as it conceded defeat.
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Gold fell more than 1 percent on Monday as the euro slid against the dollar after Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi conceded defeat in a referendum over his plan to reform the constitution.
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Election officials said they would not announce the winner of the race until Tuesday, though one of the leading candidates, Senator Grace Poe, conceded defeat on Monday night and withdrew from the race.
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COPENHAGEN — Denmark's prime minister conceded defeat Wednesday after general elections in which left-leaning parties made large gains that will probably put the Social Democrats back in power after four years in opposition.
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After Democrat Hillary Clinton conceded defeat early on Wednesday, he took a far more conciliatory tone than he had often displayed during his campaign and promised to be a president for all Americans.
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They tried to work around the crazy ambiguity, delivering remarks to their supporters that neither declared victory nor conceded defeat, because no one was yet victorious and no one yet defeated — not officially.
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That's what happened with Carter and Bush; long after Kennedy and Buchanan had conceded defeat, the people who backed their candidacies remained unenthused about the prospect of voting for their party's incumbent president.
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Vaz, who is the first Guinea-Bissau president to have completed a full term but whose tenure was marred by political dysfunction and corruption allegations, conceded defeat and threw his support behind Embalo.
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A Zimbabwean pastor who was prosecuted for leading large anti-government protests when Robert Mugabe was leader has conceded defeat in his bid to be elected as a ward councilor in the capital, Harare.
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Neither Mr. Turnbull nor the opposition Labor leader, Bill Shorten, had conceded defeat late Saturday, with about 70 percent of the votes counted in the elections to select Australia's 150-member House of Representatives.
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Long-ruling Jammeh conceded defeat but then changed his mind, plunging one of West Africa's tourist hot spots into crisis and dimming hopes for democracy in a region accustomed to coups and autocratic rule.
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Yameen conceded defeat on Monday, but his party later requested a delay in announcing the official result, which some in the opposition believed may have been an attempt to have the election resulted annulled.
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Analysts in Austria and abroad predicted that the country was about to elect Europe's first far-right head of state since World War II. But on Monday afternoon, Hofer conceded defeat on his Facebook page.
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Incumbent Abdulla Yameen, who had cultivated ties with both Beijing and Saudi Arabia, conceded defeat after the Election Commission said opposition leader Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had won Sunday's election by a margin of 16.7 percent.
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Poroshenko, who conceded defeat but said he planned to stay in politics, said on social media he thought Zelenskiy's win would spark celebrations in the Kremlin, which has yet to comment on the comedian's victory.
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Firebrand mayor Rodrigo Duterte was set to become the Philippines' next president as results from Monday's election poured in and a rival conceded defeat, confirmation the outsider's vow to crush crime had resonated with voters.
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Yameen, who had drawn the Maldives closer to China since 2013 in a Beijing-backed infrastructure boom, conceded defeat after election officials said Solih, who wants to normalize ties with traditional ally India, had won.
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During her first try at president, she had shied away from making gender a cornerstone of her candidacy -- then summoned her greatest eloquence on the topic as she conceded defeat, exactly eight years ago Tuesday.
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Sanders: 'You can't win them all' Sanders ruefully conceded defeat, but with a favorable slate of races looming on Tuesday he appears well placed to advance his "revolution" that threatens to overtake the Democratic Party.
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The official, certified vote tally: Moore, who was repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct during the campaign, never conceded defeat, and, on Thursday morning, alleged voter fraud in a lawsuit, and asked for a do-over.
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Sarcastically, Ahmed Al-Maysary, Hadi's interior minister, congratulated the UAE for victory as he conceded defeat -- a brief moment of candor that revealed the possibility of a proxy war between the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
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A third Republican, Bradley Byrne, a congressman from the Mobile area who tried to overcome his long association with the Republican Party establishment by also tethering himself to Mr. Trump, conceded defeat on Tuesday night.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conceded defeat in the eastern state of Jharkhand, with an alliance of the main opposition Congress party and a regional bloc slated to take control of the resource-rich province.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Keiko Fujimori conceded defeat on Friday to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru's tightest presidential election in decades, but she warned that her rightwing populist party would be a force of opposition during his term.
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Dealt a humiliating blow in the conservative nomination contest, four years after losing a first re-election bid to Socialist Francois Hollande, Sarkozy, 61, alluded to a possible withdrawal from political life when he conceded defeat.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's Socialists (BSP) conceded defeat in Sunday's parliamentary election but the party's leader said it would look at options for forming a government should the center-right GERB party find it cannot do so.
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Trump, bowing to mounting pressure, conceded defeat on the shutdown Friday, stating that he would sign a short-term funding bill to reopen the government without funds to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Scott Walker (R) conceded defeat to Democrat Tony Evers, Republican legislative leaders in Madison said they would contemplate a plan to claw back authority the legislature had given the governor after Walker took office in 2011.
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According to accurate polling it appears that the 39-year-old Macron has strongly won the election with around 60 percent of the vote making him France's youngest ever president—Marine Le Pen has conceded defeat.
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The southern mayor has yet to be declared the May 9 poll winner, but an unofficial vote count by an election commission-accredited watchdog showed him ahead over his four rivals, three of whom conceded defeat.
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South Korean professional player Lee Sedol, the holder of 18 international titles, conceded defeat in a match broadcast live, with one YouTube stream drawing tens of thousands of spectators worldwide, while domestic television gave frequent updates.
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel peace laureate, led the ECOWAS delegation that also included Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari, Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma and Ghana's John Mahama, who lost an election last week and conceded defeat.
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Andreescu had won the first two games but struggled after a lengthy medical timeout left her with a heavily strapped leg and she conceded defeat after Pliskova fired down a set-winning ace in the ninth game.
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But Trump conceded defeat just 18 days after the American Health Care Act was introduced, raising questions about his ability to overcome deep divisions in his own party that still remain even after the GOP's 2016 sweep.
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In a blow to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Imamoglu declared victory in the Istanbul mayor's race for a second time Sunday after Binali Yildirim, the government-backed candidate conceded defeat in a high-stakes repeat election.
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Mr. Strange conceded defeat on Tuesday night before a subdued audience at a hotel outside of Birmingham, acknowledging in a moment of striking candor that he did not fully grasp the forces at play in his loss.
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Even as the votes were being counted on the evening of June 23, 2016, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, whose only reason for existence was getting Britain out of Europe, as good as conceded defeat.
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Mike Capuano has conceded defeat to Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley in the Massachusetts primary for his US House seat Tuesday, the latest upset to rock the Democratic Party and showcase a restive base eager for change.
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The current governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, conceded defeat in a religously tinged election that was widely seen as a test of religious and ethnic tolerance in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
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Nawaz is a hero in his own telling of the ensuing exchange: He claims to have debated Omar for the entirety of the day about the legitimacy of killing British civilians, until the latter eventually conceded defeat.
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The Socialists, who had advocated stronger ties with Russia and had vowed to block a renewal of European Union sanctions against the Kremlin, could not convince enough voters that they were the better alternative and conceded defeat.
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Erdogan's main rival, Muharrem Ince of the Republican People's Party (CHP), conceded defeat but branded the elections unjust and said the presidential system that now takes effect was "very dangerous" because it would lead to one-man rule.
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The prime minister says that his party has the "moral authority" to begin a fourth term, yet Labour has not conceded defeat because it could theoretically stitch together a tenuous trifecta with New Zealand First and the Greens.
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Fortunately for historians, Dr. Hawking conceded defeat in the black hole information debate 10 years ago, admitting that advances in string theory, the so-called theory of everything, had left no room in the universe for information loss.
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SYDNEY, Australia — More than a week after one of the closest and longest Australian national elections in half a century, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared victory on Sunday after the leader of the opposition Labor Party conceded defeat.
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Yet the far-right Freedom Party's candidate, Norbert Hofer, has already conceded defeat due to crushing early returns — a result that stunned political observers and gives hope that the far-right wave sweeping the West can be stopped.
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Netanyahu's nomination has been a foregone conclusion since right-wing and religious parties allied with Netanyahu's Likud captured the largest number of seats in the Knesset in last week's ballot and his closest rival, centrist Benny Gantz, conceded defeat.
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Mr Babanov, who came second in a field of 11 candidates with 34%, conceded defeat gracefully, defusing fears that the election could spark political turmoil in a country where two presidents have been overthrown in the past 12 years.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Laurentino "Nito" Cortizo said he won the presidency in Panama's election on Sunday, declaring victory after an unexpectedly tight race that put him less than two points ahead of Romulo Roux, who has not conceded defeat.
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While a sizeable swing, that was well short of the 10 percent plus needed to install Keneally, a high-profile former premier of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, in federal politics, and the Labor Party conceded defeat.
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So until President Donald Trump began tweeting in support of Cox, Republicans had feared that Newsom might end up in the November contest with Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa, but the former Los Angeles mayor fell far short and conceded defeat.
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan center-left candidate and former first lady Sandra Torres has conceded defeat to her conservative rival Alejandro Giammattei in the country's presidential election on Sunday, an official for her campaign said in a news conference.
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The presidential candidate of the center-left coalition that has governed Uruguay for 15 years conceded defeat on Thursday, four days after a close and contentious runoff election, as the nation joined others in the region in shifting rightward.
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Within an hour of polls closing, three of the four presidential candidates conceded defeat to leftist frontrunner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has pledged to crack down on corruption and violence and to stand up to US President Donald Trump.
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And although the final result won't be made public before 9pm this evening, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who supported the Repeal campaign, has celebrated the result on Twitter, and the anti-abortion Save the Eighth campaign has conceded defeat.
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Having gracefully conceded defeat and promised to step down after the votes were counted, he changed his mind and challenged the result, encouraged perhaps by the foolhardy pledges of some of the opposition to arrest him for his many abuses of human rights.
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The 22-year-old Bencic's struggles continued, however, and, with Svitolina winning four of the first five games of the third set, she conceded defeat to become the fourth player to withdraw from the tournament due to illness or injury this week.
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Clinton herself learned the hard way: In June 2008, shortly before she conceded defeat in her Democratic primary contest with Barack Obama, she defended her perseverance in a way that critics said alluded to the possibility that Mr. Obama could be gunned down.
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Rebensburg, who does not ski slalom, conceded defeat in the season-long overall points chase on Saturday, and Gut made sure of victory by padding her lead to 355 points ahead of the four races left in finals week at nearby St. Moritz.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The euro jumped above $1.07 for the first time since mid-November on Monday, rebounding around 0.70703 cents after hitting 21-month lows after Italy's prime minister conceded defeat in a referendum on constitutional reform and said he would resign.
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Conservative President Mauricio Macri conceded defeat in Argentina's election Sunday night, paving the way for the country's Peronist center-left to return to power under Alberto Fernández as frustrated voters rejected the incumbent's handling of a bruising economic crisis that has sunk many into poverty.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's ruling Workers Party conceded defeat in Sunday's lower house vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff and said it would focus on blocking the move to remove her from office in the Senate, the party's leader in the chamber Jose Guimaraes, said.
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PARIS, June 22 (Reuters) - Airbus conceded defeat to arch-rival Boeing at the Paris Airshow on Thursday as a last-minute haul of almost 100 orders, including new interest from Iran, failed to close a gap opened up by the launch of Boeing's new 737 model.
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State Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright conceded defeat on Thursday in the Democratic congressional primary to replace Representative Charles B. Rangel, shaking hands with the winner, State Senator Adriano D. Espaillat, who is on track to become the first Dominican immigrant to be elected to Congress.
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Jeff Colyer (R) conceded defeat to Kris Kobach, the lightening rod Kansas secretary of State who has President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's backing.
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The final was also won with a submission, with his guillotine choke proving too much to handle for Marcio Alexandre Jr. Since then, he has notched up impressive victories over the likes of Alan Jouban, Nordine Taleb and Colby Covington—the two latter opponents of which also conceded defeat to Alves' crushing guillotine choke.
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Nelson conceded defeat over the weekend as did Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who lost a close election to Republican Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisFlorida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Florida governor orders criminal investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein case Groups ask court to block ex-felon voting law in Florida MORE.
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Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Former HUD secretary criticizes Bloomberg on housing policy Warren: We are watching a descent into authoritarianism MORE (D-Mass.) conceded defeat in New Hampshire's presidential primary but vowed to continue campaigning across the country as the race heads to more diverse states.
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