What does this mean?

He would not admit his fault.

He will on no account accept defeat.

I must confess a conflict of interest at the start.

Well, so long as you admit your error.

I'm afraid he will never admit his guilt.

And I'm going to admit to hubris.

President Bush cannot, of course, admit this.

I think you're a selfish, petty egomaniac who would just as soon see his mother burning at a stake if that was the only way he had to light a cigarette.

He cannot admit to error, much less to wrongdoing.

Why don't you want to acknowledge that you're wrong?

But we have to recognize that we have those limitations.

And I will say, though, the museum is gorgeous.

I must confess that the outlook is not optimistic.

We must now recognise that our demands have not been complied with.

Your nephew will buy it, he'll be mad! He'll have to say

Perhaps because I knew all along, just wouldn't admit it to myself.

But they must be able to admit when they are out of bullets.

Mrs Lizin. (F) Mr President, we have never disputed the fact that the Council has made numerous positive statements on this question.

I merely express the hope that they will one day realize that they are wrong, as have many of their colleagues over the past few years or decades.

We must acknowledge that we have not made it at all easy for them.

We'll confess everything right away, and promise never to do it again.

Is this not an admission of impotence on the part of elected representatives of the Member States?

So, we must admit that some of the blame falls squarely at the feet of the users.

I think you must conceded, Mr. Holmes, that the last trick of the game is mine.

They say never confess a weakness to a woman but I am, devilishly.

But I am sure she would also agree that there is a significant minority who take a completely opposite view.

We have to face up to the fact that there has not been full cooperation between Member States.

You're as guilty as we are and you might as well face it.

I have to be honest. I was a little bit nervous the first time I had an MRI scan.

What does this mean? It means you've got to stop pretending you can do these two very disparate skill sets with the same 19 year old.

However, we will not have reached that position by 19 March, which I freely admit.

Now this process of trial and error is actually far more common in successful institutions than we care to recognize.

You have the very large insurance companies and you have a number of smaller ones.

Instead, it should be revealing its weaknesses and vulnerabilities to gain Western understanding.

And we undoubtedly need this system for internal transit operations too, once consignments are inside the external borders of the EU.

In political life, people are used to reading between the lines.

We have to accept, however, that there are times when it is roads that provide the necessary access into the hinterland.

I believe then that, somewhere along the line, even Mr Krarup will say that we need the EU.

However, there was not much we could do about that. We have to accept the present common fisheries policy has ended in failure.

We must also admit that we do not have the same classification systems at all or the same definitions.

If the IPCC is to do to its job properly, it must own up to all of its missteps and clean house.

France s elites need to own up to the mistakes of the past and find better ways to confront today s challenges.

The goal of eradication was abandoned in 1969 and attention was instead focused on controlling and treating the disease.

If you can assess and analyze your mistakes, it is a stepping stone to moving higher.