1.   Admit temporary defeat with good grace, retreat, reconsider and wait.

2.   Admitting defeat, her husband was working Sunday to get a jump on the week.

3.   After half an hour she had to admit defeat.

4.   Haskill refuses to admit defeat and sell the restaurant.

5.   He had already summed her up as some one who hated to admit defeat.

6.   If I left my job, I would be admitting defeat.

7.   Rather than admit defeat, Franklin compromised in order to save face.

8.   She would have hated it if she had to admit defeat, and crawl off to a hotel somewhere.

9.   The four climbers were eventually forced to admit defeat when weather conditions made it impossible to continue.

10.   The logical thing would have been to admit defeat.