How To Use Capitulation In A Sentence

The editorial begins with a recapitulation of the basic argument marshaled by the Bush administration regarding his past actions while on the board of directors of Harken Energy.
The candidate concluded his recitation with an abbreviated recapitulation of the subdivisions of the five principal topics.
After the second climax, the music slows with a recapitulation of the opening theme and then fades to nothing.
We are dealing with an absolutist culture that demands total capitulation or nothing.
In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_

During a ride to a natural tank amongst these rocky elevations, I passed from the alluvium to the sandstone, and at once met with all the prevailing plants of the granite, gneiss, limestone and hornstone rocks previously examined, and which I have enumerated too often to require recapitulation; a convincing proof that the mechanical properties and not the chemical constitution of the rocks regulate the distribution of these plants. Himalayan Journals — Complete
A very similar effect occurs at the start of the recapitulation.
Freud focused on psychosexual development, seeing adolescence as a recapitulation of the development of sexual awareness in infancy.
The work in which he summarizes his perspective, is a recapitulation of various articles published earlier, but here we see much more cohesion.
In the military sense capitulation provides a means to end conflict, either at local or a wider level.
Some of the material will be familiar to readers who have kept up with this debate, but this volume is by no means a recapitulation of debates now worn threadbare by constant worrying.
The events, though recent, do need a brief recapitulation.
Why they ban a gay-friendly ad during a game so outwardly homoerotic is nothing short of capitulation to right-wing interests. Think Progress » CBS Allows Focus On The Family Advocacy Ad During Super Bowl, But Bans Gay Dating Site Ad
The following, then, is less a straight recapitulation of plot and character than it is an introduction to the basic discourses at work in one of Rivette's most important films.
So we're left with an anti-relativism argument that traffics in relativism, an anti-corporate argument framed in corporate terms, and an Adorno/Horkheimer name-drop without enough self-realization to notice that the exclusionary schema it's propping up is a mirror-image recapitulation of what Adorno and Horkheimer were warning against. Archive 2009-07-01
Simply put, some investors believe that true capitulation is the sign of a bottom.
In Sonata 10 in D Major, one of the six sonatas with full recapitulations, the lyrical second theme in the dominant minor provides a marked contrast to the assertive principal one.
At a much more popular level, the transfer of the idea of recapitulation into general thinking is exemplified in its expression in a book on child care that was a handbook in many thousands of American homes in the mid-twentieth century. RECAPITULATION
The Kai - shek leadership opposed the outright capitulation which it knew the entire nation would never accept.
Violation of the terms of a capitulation by individuals is punishable as a war crime.
Every non-Muslim people living under the rule of the caliph enjoyed not only peace and security, but complete autonomy as well which lived on in the form of capitulations in the Turkish Empire up to quite recent times.
After an unusually long and chromatic development the recapitulation begins in the tonic minor.
As the theologian Robert Farrar Capon so astutely recognized, the entire argument of Ephesians in the first chapter is what is called a recapitulation.
Pizarro went to Spain and concluded a capitulation with the crown by which he obtained the right of discovery and conquest of Peru for a distance of 200 leagues south of the Gulf of Guayaquil and the office of adelantado, governor and captain-general. 4. Peru and the West Coast, 1522-1581
Should we be surprised by the extent of England's capitulation?
At noon, the recording of the rescript was broadcast, and the nation heard the emperor's voice announcing Japan's final capitulation.
Gillmore, who had become the Union's most renowned artillerist after he had forced the capitulation of Fort Pulaski at Savannah in April 1862, brought in heavy weaponry.
This book will be most useful as a bibliographic resource for those approaching the topic for the first time, and as a thorough recapitulation of the key positions on central research interests on the question of physical attractiveness.
Both assumptions have always been dubious, and are even more so after last week's capitulation.
Chapter 5 presents my theory, which avoids the recapitulation of Western gender roles and heterosexism inherent in many theories of attraction like Bem's.
Recognising and working with prevailing social attitudes need not mean total capitulation. Times, Sunday Times
He keeps trying to make deals with people who idea of deals is your capitulation.
One bit of sloppiness and his backing of a fruitless theory made him increasingly irrelevant which is actually unfortunate—he was otherwise an interesting, if bombastic and overzealous, thinker who contributed to many disciplines but his theory, called recapitulation or the biogenetic law, was abandoned because his theory didn't fit the facts. The Haeckel-Wells Chronicles - The Panda's Thumb
Even casual readers may benefit from the sectional summaries or recapitulations in the book.
The "ontogeny" of a single human tribe must not be a recapitulation of the "phelogeny" of the meg-tribe known as a patriarchal state. An Oxymoron: "Marxist Communism"
What is called for in this matter is neither war nor capitulation.
That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
All novels after the first in a series have to tread a line between standing alone and catering for the faithful reader who will be irritated by constant recapitulations.
Discuss in detail a good example of recapitulation, showing how the stages of ontogeny parallel those of phylogeny.
While Levin’s reservations are reasonable, especially given the Pakistani government’s repeated double games with and capitulations to militants, they remain couched in a transactional view of the U.S. Wonk Room » President’s Pakistan Aid Plan Represents Dramatic Shift
Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.) Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
The recapitulation begins with the restatement of the second segment of the first theme.
And shame on you for including the outdated and proven fraudulent idea of embryonic recapitulation (that has been discarded by scientists) to reinforce evolutionary ideas in the public eye.
Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
As the firing was still continued on the French side, Lafayette sent an aide-de-camp to the Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.) Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
We must sharply pose the question of who is to lead and must resolutely combat capitulationism in view of the grave situation described above.
When the Romans, therefore, had occasion to order more corn than the tithe of wheat amounted to, they were bound by capitulation to pay for the surplus at the rate of four sestertii, or eight-pence sterling, the peck; and this had probably been reckoned the moderate and reasonable, that is, the ordinary or average contract price of those times; it is equal to about one-and-twenty shillings the quarter. XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
Scales of prices for commodities in "butters" or in pie-currency were evolved, so that we here have an almost entirely spontaneous but amazingly rapid recapitulation of the social development of the race by these boys. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
But you could pretty clearly use this kind of recapitulation argument that way. October « 2009 « Maria Lectrix
I know the NuLab opponents are flying up there with the electorial greats of British History, what with the Afghan/Iraq Wars, the Neathergate bombshells and the EU capitulations. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
In 1904, he published a book on adolescence, advocating a new theory of child development based on evolutionary recapitulation.
He thinks it's just a failure to speak in fathomable language, an unthinking capitulation to the professionalization of academic discourse. Literary Study
Besides the quantity of enemies, they didn't look like they would be accepting surrenders or capitulations any time soon.
Not that government capitulation to public pressure generated by antivivisection campaigns is anything particularly new.
It is merely the capitulation of religion before the idol of scientism (itself a form of religious belief).
Which brings us to the final frontier, the last taboo, the great capitulation: 'manscaping'. Times, Sunday Times
With the July 4, 1863, capitulation of the city he was awarded a major generalcy in the regular army.
It's the way to confound those who cynically try to use ‘inactivity by the members’ as an excuse for capitulation.
Although a strong form of recapitulation is not correct, phylogeny and ontogeny are intertwined, and many biologists are beginning to both explore and understand the basis for this connection.
Many treasury bears are convinced the capitulation of Roach and Bill Gross, in conjunction with the repeg of the RMB by China marks the beginning of the end for US treasuries and the US dollar. The great "Flation" debate - What's coming and how to profit from It.
In fact the narrator's language is positively austere as he tries to minimize our sense of recapitulation.
Not the least curious section of this piece of early programme music is a _moderato_ recording the various articles of the capitulation. Charles Dickens and Music
There was no element of surrender in the early capitulations made between the powerful Ottoman Turk sultans and various European rulers.
At the Aug.14 supreme council meeting, the emperor asked the councilors to prepare the capitulation rescript, saying, ‘If we continue the war, Japan will be altogether annihilated.’
There was nothing left for it to do but to repeat, in short recapitulation, the course it had traversed, and to prove that it had been buried only after it had expired. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
That would do a whole lot more for civilised and democratic behaviour than abject capitulation to these self-evident hypocrites.
Even casual readers may benefit from the sectional summaries or recapitulations in the book.
Haeckel used embryology extensively in his recapitulation theory, which embodied a progressive, almost linear model of evolution.
She knew that her chance would not come again, which was why, despite her capitulation in the marathon, she pluckily chose to run in the 10,000m, only to drop out once more.
His capitulation has been condemned by some comfortable historians, unthreatened by a London mob and remote from Stapledon's horrifying end.
For Dom, Kodak's capitulation proved to be the start of a busy round of newspaper and TV interviews for the IT contractor.
About 4 o'clock next morning (September 14th) a deputation (p. 332) of the _ayuntamiento_ (city council) waited upon me to report that the federal government and the army of Mexico had fled from the capital some three hours before; and to demand terms of capitulation in favor of the church, the citizens, and the municipal authorities. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas.
The capitulation of the left on economic growth parallels its defeat and marginalisation in political struggles.
For those who have forgotten, here is a recapitulation of the crime.
But there was also boundless sympathy for Norman, whose extraordinary capitulation lived with him long after.
His finished paintings are in part recapitulations of Claude's work, paying experimental homage to the glories of sunlight and water with new tonalities of colour made available by modern chemistry - notably yellows.
To the nationalist writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, they were “a form of direct capitulation by the center before the autonomies and a violation of the rights of the remaining oblasts of russia.” The Return
He nodded with a peculiarly male satisfaction at her capitulation.
I was surprised by the quickness of his capitulation.
This and other glaring contradictions have been obscured by yammering talk-show yahoos who have been attempting to equate dissent with treason and capitulation.
They learnt to take themes which did not sound exactly like the subjects of a fugue; they laid out their first and their second, and then they did not know what on earth to do, and footled and stumbled till it was time for the recapitulation; so that Haydn himself said the worst of the young men was that they could not stick long enough at anything to work it out, and no sooner began one thing than they wanted to be off to another. Haydn
[6645] Thus they mutter and object (see the rest of their arguments in Marcennus in Genesin, and in Campanella, amply confuted), with many such vain cavils, well known, not worthy the recapitulation or answering: whatsoever they pretend, they are interim of little or no religion. Anatomy of Melancholy
It advocates walking the extra mile, which, far from being capitulation or forfeiture of rights, is unflinching self-assertion and composure amidst adversity or extortion.
There was no capitulation over the four kilometres and there were no errors, merely gradual submission to inexorable opponents.
How can we Americans, scions of Jefferson and Paine that we are, ever rest easy if we allow such a capitulation to take place?
Yet, like Darwin and many science textbooks and evolutionist books for laymen, the editor of this journal endorses embryonic recapitulation.
Just eight hours before the Salerno invasion Eisenhower and Badoglio announced the Italian capitulation over Rome and Algiers radio. Wild Bill Donovan
All around the world, Britain's defeat or capitulation was expected within weeks.
Here's a year-by-year recapitulation of the last nine contests.
It was made worse by the fact they surrendered a hard-earned lead in a second-half capitulation which earned them an audible booing off at the final whistle. The Sun
Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
The peoples have defied their prison guards and raised their voices loudly against the capitulation projects and accelerating steps towards turning Israel into a friend who can be counted on to play the role of the policeman or the "muscleman" against the new enemy Iran. Palestine Blogs aggregator
Then, a couple of weeks or so after the capitulation, when my protests no longer made much sense, they were listened to, and I was sent as Intelligence Officer to one of the brigade's constituent battalions.
Recognising and working with prevailing social attitudes need not mean total capitulation. Times, Sunday Times
Frank Brennan draws his lecture to a close with a recapitulation of his main points.
The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.
In the theoretical magazine of the post-Trotskyist groupuscule of which I was once a member, a learned commentary on this and other writings of his appeared, titled "The End of the Road: Deutscher's Capitulation to Stalinism. The Old Man
When you've read all the notes and done all the research, what is there to discuss other than a 'recapitulation' and other miscellaneous et ceteras? Rouflaquette Diary Entry
There is no compromise with such an enemy, no capitulation to him, no way to avoid casualties, no easy way out.
Unfortunately, I will need to pass over much of Newman's history; for my purpose his hermeneutic is more important than his recapitulation of the Nicene controversy.
The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas.
The Americans have stopped pretending, and now demand outright capitulation to its hegemony.
Recognising and working with prevailing social attitudes need not mean total capitulation. Times, Sunday Times
Most of these highnesses and mightinesses formed part of what the Germans themselves sarcastically called their "Ornamental Staff," and as Moltke seldom allowed them any real share in the military operations, they doubtless found in Home's performances some relief from the _taedium vitae_ which overtook them during their long wait for the capitulation of Paris. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
The theory of the heredity of somatogenic modifications by means of hormones harmonises with and goes far to explain the facts of metamorphosis and recapitulation in adaptive characters, and also the origin of secondary sexual characters, their correlation with the periodical changes in the gonads and the effects of castration. Hormones and Heredity
We have a proud heritage of fighting against all forms of revisionism that leads to capitulation and betrayal of the international socialist course.
They nearly enveloped it, which would have led to immediate capitulation of the English at Quebec.
This essay, like much of the book, is derivative, little more than a recapitulation of facts better explored by literary scholars.
There are some signs of at least partial capitulation to the merchants by the clearance provider.
According to Haeckel, the gastrula stage can be found in the development of all animals, and represents the recapitulation of the ancestral metazoan, the Gastraea, a diploblastic animal with a ciliated gut.
A paraphrastical recapitulation of those things which are taught in the first four verses of the eighth chapter, and their connection with the preceding chapter. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
The proper and co-ordinated use of these factors would not only frustrate capitulationism and splitting but also overcome the obstructions to any advance beyond partial resistance.
But the recapitulation is as gratuitous as it is insulting and untrue. Echoes of the Week
I conceived the embryonic form, in which the whole structure consists of only two layers of cells, and is known as the gastrula, to be the ontogenetic recapitulation, maintained by tenacious heredity, of a primitive common progenitor of all the Metazoa, the Gastraea. Evolution in Modern Thought
We must sharply pose the question of who is to lead and must resolutely combat capitulationism in view of the grave situation described above.
Historically, such a profoundly submissive capitulation, as took place in the Soviet case, was a rarity.
they were protected until the capitulation of the fort
The military were inclined to see evacuation as a capitulation rather than as an orderly way of regrouping the civilian population.
To make matters worse, he never provided indexes to his books, and gives no summaries, recapitulations of points, nor linguistic ‘signposts’ to aid the unwitting reader.
Again, Mendelssohn saw the concerto form as a field for experiment and his idea of continuing the soloist's cadenza figuration in the first movement over the recapitulation in the orchestra was later hailed by Ravel as a masterstroke.
This report is a concise recapitulation of events throughout the entire day.
Fighting ceased on October 2 with the formal capitulation of the Home Army forces.
Developmental genes has nothing to do with "recapitulation". Behe's Test
In the Appendices we include a brief recapitulation of the methods used for these measurements.
Finally, Stalin promised Soviet entry into the war with Japan around three months after German capitulation.
The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas.
The tenor of the campaign revealed a determination to achieve capitulation, not compromise.
And, finally, capitulation for the sake of expeditiousness is not the right path; Parenting was a much better name than any alternative we had. Naked in the Boardroom
Now he has followed it up with (groan) a sequel, _Maelstrom_; _groan_ because the commercial strategy of tying the two books together has necessitated weighing down virtually the first third of what could have just as well been a free-standing novel with a detailed recapitulation of the events of _Starfish_ and their relation to the surface world that almost had me giving up on the book. Asimov's Science Fiction
Cast your mind back to the capitulation and collaboration which was Vichy France, Berlin Bear.
The minatory cloud of forced negotiation with local authorities over even trivial building changes is an excellent way to get Northwestern to think a second time about ‘voluntary’ capitulation to taxation.
In the first movement, after the first statement in the exposition, there is a passage of five block chords that crops up again a few minutes later in the recapitulation with a shift in the harmonization at the end.
Thelen's concluding chapter is not merely a recapitulation of her findings but rather provides important new insights on her topics, especially the broader issues of institutional evolution.
What it says seems rather to indicate a more general capitulation among many so-called left of centre bloggers and journalists.
As genetic data accumulated, coenogenesis became less acceptable as an explanation of deviations from strict recapitulation, since it implied the inheritance of acquired characters, the Lamarckian theory, which was unacceptable to the new genetics. RECAPITULATION
Which genealogicall recapitulation in their nationall families and tribes, other people also haue obserued; as the Spaniards, who reckon their descent from Hesperus, before the Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
He nodded with a peculiarly male satisfaction at her capitulation.
In view of these facts, we may now give the following more precise expression to our chief law of biogeny: The evolution of the foetus (or ontogenesis) is a condensed and abbreviated recapitulation of the evolution of the stem (or phylogenesis); and this recapitulation is the more complete in proportion as the original development (or palingenesis) is preserved by a constant heredity; on the other hand, it becomes less complete in proportion as a varying adaptation to new conditions increases the disturbing factors in the development (or cenogenesis). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
This move is nothing but capitulation and renegation on the part of the PAC leadership, "Mr ANC Daily News Briefing
I didn't fully understand the reason and don't remember enough of it to give a coherent recapitulation… but it had something to do with a New York state law back then that gave certain tax advantages to small businesses.
Fighting ceased on October 2 with the formal capitulation of the Home Army forces.
Chapter 9 provides a valuable recapitulation of the material already presented.
The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas.
And bull markets aren't a guarantee even when there is a capitulation.
There are plenty of apposite biblical quotations, and a series of questions by way of recapitulation and meditation at the end of each chapter.

How To Use Capitulation In A Sentence

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