"It was probably a bad idea to pursue that as the first film," he now grudgingly concedes.

Administration officials grudgingly concede there is a good deal of truth to that assessment.

"That statement gives you authority of a sort," the captain conceded grudgingly.

This had been very frustrating he said, and, he more or less grudgingly conceded in the end, a mistake.

"Maybe you've got better sense than I thought," Wolf conceded grudgingly.

He even grudgingly conceded that some tenants took a keen interest in him.

The emergence of the rebels is likely to speed progress considerably, officials grudgingly concede.

Gray grudgingly conceded the point, but he was far from swayed.

"Perhaps you are right this time," he conceded grudgingly.

You may even see me married," she conceded grudgingly.