ceding

It's not at all - that means you're ceding many rights to the authors of the software.

You are ceding control of your online brand to their design framework.

Adopting Android might help them achieve that, but at the cost of ceding control to Google.

Don't expect Apple to fix it by ceding the rights it currently has to its competitors.

Worse, it could make slow growth permanent by ceding our position as a global high-tech leader to foreign competitors.

"Now that the rewrite on top of libuv is largely complete, I am ceding \nmy position as gatekeeper to Isaac Schlueter.

The ceding of day-to-day operations and leadership to Saint Paul, his right-hand man and chosen successor.

Big companies could develop techniques to quickly iterate on products rather than ceding ground to more agile startups.

They surrendered control of the time frame, chiefly by ceding exclusivity but also with the technical due diligence.

If you're aware of someone using one of your patents but don't do anything to control it, you're implicitly ceding future rights to that invention.

How many SharePoint licenses does MS have to sell to make up for ceding a significant portion of the untapped Chinese PC market to the iPad?

My hunch is that ultimately, ceding control of the car to an automated system is going to produce better results, at least when driving on major "pipeline" roads.

Going by the headline I was hoping he would finally anounce that he is officially ceding markdown leadership thus making the life of the people actually working on it better.

What's the point of a controller?I also don't like ceding control-flow from the controller into the application by injecting the controller context in the form of "rails_adapter", in the name of "Tell, don't ask".

The ICC is an anti-democratic institution, and participating in the ICC necessitates ceding part of your sovereignty to a bunch of people that don't necessarily share your interests and values.