How To Use Surrender In A Sentence

By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The Buffalo News: Home
I duly surrendered my little device, only to feel a sudden pang of panic on my way back to my seat. Times, Sunday Times
Dustin Archibald, 21, of Denham Springs surrendered to Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies on Thursday. Louisiana Trail-Cam Thief Says He Was Protecting Deer
Such actively passive self-surrender is thus the necessary beginning of the regeneration on which loving union depends. The Times Literary Supplement

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Don't surrender to this dark woeld.
We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
What powers can it realistically reclaim having surrendered control of the club structure in 1992? Times, Sunday Times
For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians.
Will sighed and turned around slowly, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender.
We surrendered the cameras and hurried away. Times, Sunday Times
After more than a month of siege warfare, Pemberton surrendered to Grant on 4 July 1863.
But when it came, Bristol promptly surrendered the lead. Times, Sunday Times
You'd have to surrender your phones at the door or be punched unconscious by an air marshal. Times, Sunday Times
Chela has three break points and Henman surrenders his advantage with a double fault.
Against overwhelming odds, I surrendered myself and watched a glut of documentaries about the military hardware.
But the more relevant argument is that religion promotes out-group mentality in an age of interdependence when we can't afford to surrender to ancient instincts. Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss
Through forty-five songs interspersed with dialogue and scriptural verses, the play emphasized the Saint's complete devotional self-surrender.
Midfielders were determined to surrender possession in the early stages.
On surrendering, the paramilitaries had admitted only to the illegal possession of arms and to having agreed to commit an offence.
Feb. 2 North cluster remnants of the German surrender, the end of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Surrendering warriors have been greeted with open arms; some are amnestied, while others, especially foreign ones, are imprisoned.
Haywood will not surrender her role as moral arbitress to Amiana.
He said no German field marshal in history had ever surrendered. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
We've had air and soft air pistols, air rifles, blank firers and replica guns surrendered, which is an excellent result.
The army used microphones to urge the gunmen to release the hostages and surrender.
If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the one accused, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.
Repeated attempts were made to establish personal contacts with servicemen in order to induce them to desert and surrender.
Since Edward Heath took us into what we were led to believe was the European free trade area, various governments have surrendered our Westminster Parliament's monopoly of making and unmaking laws in this country.
I had to surrender my lease for the taking of land.
Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.' Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
All he wants from me is unconditional surrender. Christianity Today
Voucher can only be used once and must be surrendered upon use. Times, Sunday Times
The assured is then paid the surrender value of the policy, which is calculated by an actuary on the basis of the amounts paid to date.
At first, so great was his disgust with the magazines and all bourgeois society, Martin fought against publicity; but in the end, because it was easier than not to, he surrendered. Chapter 43
Those troops would be loath to accept surrenders from troops who engage in such acts.
He surrendered his own life to save colleagues. The Sun
If one however recognizes that that type of reconciliation is a code word for surrender, then characterizing this organization as a terrorist organization doesn't make any difference. Stuck in Somalia
He subsequently surrendered his law license in 1988 and was disbarred after an investigation.
Through megaphones, voices in broken English blared out at them, urging them to surrender and lay down their arms.
They took the lead thanks to an own goal but surrendered the advantage with five minutes left.
They would rather die than surrender .
MIT Press The bombing for the sake of "frightfulness" (an imitation of the Germans) and the insolent demand for unconditional surrender, and the blind policy with Russia were all blunders as well as wrongs, and have produced a stale-mate where materially there was a clear victory. 'The Letters of George Santayana'
However, he was a soldier true at heart and would never surrender without resisting with all the means at his disposal.
It answers their need for an excuse to go straight, while not at the same time surrendering to the morality of a society they believe has wronged them deeply.
A shakeup would likely see him surrender control of the business. Times, Sunday Times
And with the technological advancement of dyes, which are conditioning rather than damaging, there is no reason to surrender to the ageing process. Times, Sunday Times
He must surrender his passport by 7pm today and live at an address given to the court.
If Judge Berman were to authorize Douglas to self-surrender to the prison he would begin serving his term with much less stress. Michael Santos: What Happens to Cameron Douglas?
It was only when Gov. Charles Robinson assured them that the "unratified and unproclaimed treaty was not a surrender but a triumph of diplomacy" that the mutineers were quelled.
The membership handily voted it down, but the very fact that the union bureaucracy has introduced the proposal signifies that it is laying the groundwork for an outright surrender…
Sumter surrendered, it was Jubal Early, later to become an army general fighting for the Confederacy, who spoke out for the unionists. Great drama at Virginia secession convention
The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender.
Dr. Berri ' s system, which he called QB Score, analyzed data to determine which aspects of a game contributed most to a team ' s scoring or surrendering points. Rethinking Quarterback Stats
In 1931, the French Government was forced to surrender its rights of jurisdiction to the local government.
He doesn't want to surrender the advantage he has as a fine hitter.
An ill-affected Government may well realise today, moreover, that such a stoppage would probably not be followed by a collapse and surrender by the company. Oil, Power Politics and the Arab Awakening
Once, the King sent a herald with banner, trumpet and tabard, to invite the captain of Famagusta to surrender.
She gradually surrendered her dream of becoming an actress.
Cath was most reluctant to surrender her independence.
Surely it is unwise to surrender any endowment policy? Times, Sunday Times
There was Marco in grimy apron plating up, or opening scallops, looking every inch the piratical hero, with his long black hair and sunken eyes and high cheek bones, surrendered long ago to his new-found affluence.
Almost immediately, the producers surrendered, agreeing to a strict enforcement of the Code under the administration of a prominent Catholic layman.
Some land surrendered to the Crown may have involved injustices.
He had to surrender the watches to the police in which the heroin was hidden.
Lilywhite wards and the astringent smell of disinfectant had turned into a sad and pullulating slum, the saving grace being the medical orderlies who had refused to surrender.
Libya's stunning decision yesterday to surrender its weapons of mass destruction followed two decades of international isolation and some of the world's most punishing economic sanctions.
Last week in Yarraville, he became the fourth person to be pulled over at random and forced to surrender a saliva sample to the wallopers.
There are those who risked ambush in the taking of surrenders.
Then the word crackled over the radio: the enemy had surrendered; come on down. President Remarks At National Memorial Ceremony
He started the day with a one-point lead, but surrendered his advantage with four bogeys in an eight-hole stretch mid-round.
The first was a familiar swell of pained and wincing why-oh-whying as it became clear that the Premier League's most consistently infuriating club would not win a trophy this season: talk of callowness, foreign-accented surrenderism and a crucial absence of Anglophone chest-thump. Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay
It’s also true that to write about cricket in this country is no longer to surrender automatically to the hegemony of American culture; until quite recently, the word cricketer, when typed into my computer, would be underscored by a squiggly red line. Bowling Alone
Most soldiers they met were a sorry sight, injured, half-starving and desperate to surrender.
Five surrendered to bail at the airport. Times, Sunday Times
With the help of military deserters, they stormed the prison and forced its surrender, massacring the commander who had fired on them early in the attack.
Half way through the fourth, Palmer suffered a muscle pull and surrendered effectively at that point.
In this microcosm of man versus machine, surrender is not an option. Times, Sunday Times
As for the concept of voluntary surrender, the author holds the "two factors" theory, for "surrender oneself to justice" and "confess truthfully" consist of the acceptance of adjudication and justice.
In surrendering to the global capitalists, governments are themselves debasing democracy, making it quite useless for people to vote.
I say that we cannot surrender to those temptations.
State offices gave them the authority to compel peasants and artisans to surrender the resources of the province.
The Kings could surrender a Game 1 to Jersey from sheer jitters.
Such a world exists - not for car owners, but for owners of life insurance policies intended for lapse or surrender.
Then we returned to basics with a craven Headingley surrender. The Sun
However, there is never an excuse for capitulating and surrendering the public interest to the dictates of the market.
The policy can be surrendered for cash at any time after one year at a special surrender value and there are no deductions if the policy is surrendered any time after three years.
Khan, (the Khasmahul's son-in-law,) and others of equal rank, all in loud terms admonished the assailants, and demanded the surrender of the children, but all were alike unheeded. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
The band was finally forced to surrender only 30 miles short of reaching safety in Canada.
Eleanor is sentenced to banishment and Gloucester surrenders the protectorship.
His body, too strong to surrender easily or quickly, gave up the fight for life slowly and reluctantly.
I watch the sea and I think I see in the patterns of foamy surf tumbling arms and legs thrown together or held up, up in surrender. SEA MUSIC
I finally surrendered to temptation, and ate the last remaining chocolate.
Thereupon I called my knights and my men, and asked them what they wished us to do whether to surrender to the Sultan's galleys, or to surrender to those on land. The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
He preferred to die rather than surrender to the enemy.
Do not punish yourself by wasting your time. Do not undermine yourself by surrendering to your negative habits. Dr T.P.Chia
Where we emerged on the floodplain below the fall line, the leaf mat beneath the trees had the telltale signs of abandoned farmsteads long surrendered to the wild. Fire The Sky
Once one-person-one-vote is accepted, some have already signalled a willingness to surrender much of their power.
When I was duly discharged I made a firm resolution to surrender my subscriptions, which were bleeding my budget with their ridiculously high rates and false promises.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Whatever may be the responsibility of those nations whose executives possess the power of declaring war and of adopting other coercive remedies without the intervention of the legislative department, for the language held by the Executive in addressing that department, it is obvious that under the Constitution of the United States, which gives to the Executive no such powers, but vests them exclusively in the Legislature, whilst at the same time it imposes on the Executive the duty of laying before the Legislature the state of the nation, with such recommendations as he may deem proper, no such responsibility can be admitted without impairing that freedom of intercommunication which is essential to the system and without surrendering in this important particular the right of self-government. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)
Mobile and Memphis, surrendered their charters and were ruled directly by the governor; and there were numerous "strangulated" counties which on account of debt had lost self-government and were ruled by appointees of the governor. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states
By surrendering your personal will to the whim of the die you are practicing precisely that self-abnegation prescribed in the scriptures. THE DICE MAN
Like the caterpillar who enters a chrysalid, we surrender to death to our ways and enter the maze of waiting, and if we wait patiently enough, in His time we emerge into the transformation needed, and wonderfully possible, in whatever phase of our lives we are. The Inner Maze of Waiting
He had immediately surrendered himself after the shooting of the Santa Claus, anxious to be taken into custody.
The digital panopticon is founded not on compulsion but on the willing surrender of privacy. Times, Sunday Times
The awful surrender of the fructuous mind that lives on paper, lives for paper, paper and ink and nothing else! 'Dictation'
York City could soon face a scrap to save their Football League status if they continue to surrender points in the alarming fashion that has been displayed in the club's last two outings.
Those policies which were surrendered early were heavily penalised and milched for profit.
The notion of surrender is of course central to your story, as your title implies. Chang-rae Lee - An interview with author
It may take sacrifice, surrender of thought, accountability and persistence.
The terrorists were given ten minutes to surrender.
Still, despite all sorts of turmoil, Rushdie has never surrendered to this seemingly all-pervasive impoverishment of our imaginative faculties.
The only exception to this is where the head tenancy comes to an end by surrender or merger.
Adversity is a hard but great teacher in life - it either builds you up or breaks you down. Adversity has produced many of the most successful people in the world. Adversity has defeated many inspiring and clever people. Adversity harasses the weak but surrenders to those who are determined, persistent and persevering. Dr T.P.Chia
If you want the US to surrender/withdraw however your political stipe demands that you phrase it leave the kind general out of that decision. Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Of course, few bosses want to surrender the reins of power. Times, Sunday Times
Men who work in a macho sports world, where to yield a step means intolerable humiliation, willingly befoul their own legacy, and then surrender it to long-term tarnish. Ben Roethlisberger at a crossroads
Why, who is so ignorant of fetial law as not to see that these men are saying this, not because it represents the fact but to prevent their being surrendered? The History of Rome, Vol. II
The fleet was to surrender, but it was scuttled before it reached the naval base at Scapa Flow.
When every citizen is obliged to surrender DNA and a finger or retina print to a national database, it suggests that the state has some proprietary right over that information and the citizen's identity.
The unknown bird sometimes surrenders itself within the bars of the cage to whisper tidings of the bondless unknown beyond. My Reminiscences
Hundreds of inmates will be handed clean syringes and swabs on a ‘no questions asked’ basis as a result of the scheme, which was condemned last night as the ultimate surrender in the war on drugs.
They were needed for a certain time at least, and only after the Moors had done their duty,1 could the wirepuller venture to give them the kicks they had coming to them and take the Republic out of the hands of the old state servants and surrender it into the claws of the revolutionary vultures. Mein Kampf
In dealing with the issue, however, the minister expressed the view that we have been surrendering to the idea that society is essentially responsible for all ills.
After three days of rioting, the police have begun to look as though they have surrendered the streets to young men intent on wanton violence and burglary. Times, Sunday Times
Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and Republicans, listen up and listen tight, surrender is not a word any American takes lightly. Stephen Herrington: The Invisible Six Point Democratic Lead
In exchange for these payments, the annuitant surrenders a specific amount of money to the insurance company. For Some Retirees, This Annuity Makes Sense
He surrendered ten days later, and the American victory convinced the French government to formally recognize the colonist's cause and enter the war as their ally.
President Bush again smeared opponents of the Iraq war last night, accusing them of “waving the white flag of surrender.” Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 29, 2006
Do not through fear of poverty surrender liberty.
After the fighting ended, he hid in the jungle for two years before he was coaxed into surrendering.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. Robert H. Schuller
He was also forced to surrender his passport. Times, Sunday Times
A true Christian is a person who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved from the guilt and the power of sin and is surrendered to Him as his Lord and Master - and confesses Him as such before the world.
Find out what the surrender value is and the expected maturity value. Times, Sunday Times
Then we returned to basics with a craven Headingley surrender. The Sun
To his detractors, Guston symbolized the regression of American culture, its surrender of serious painterly values to the vulgar sirens of mass culture.
Do not punish yourself by wasting your time. Do not undermine yourself by surrendering to your negative habits. Dr T.P.Chia
The most ominous feature of last week's surrender to renascent union power was its institutionalisation - something denied to the TUC barons even in the 1970s.
But the most deadly blow was the constitution of a subsidiary government, to be known as Illyria, by the surrender directly to The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
In certain situations an individual can be compelled to produce material for inspection by, or surrender to, the police.
The nomenklatura might have been prepared to surrender the Soviet state without a fight, but not their dachas.
And with the technological advancement of dyes, which are conditioning rather than damaging, there is no reason to surrender to the ageing process. Times, Sunday Times
Even when the tame _cabestro_ came, with tinkling bell, to entice Vivillo away, she could hardly bear to leave him, though she well knew that he was safe; that his wounds would be skilfully tended; that he would be restored to health, and that, in very shame (when the story was made known), Carmona must surrender the bull to her. The Car of Destiny
Yet most of us have already unconsciously surrendered to the more insidious aspects of modernity long before we even contemplate drawing our swords from their scabbards and inspecting them for rust.
He had to decide between surrender and starvation.
The surrender was made possible through the mediation of Kananga Mayor Elmer C. Codilla, who turned over Aligato to Lt. Colonel Roberto S. Capulong, Battalion Commander of the 19th IB, on March 18, 2009. Philippines Social Integration Program draws insurgents back into folds of law
Nevertheless, the instinctive part of me -- that part of us which refuses to fraternize with reason, and which we call the superstitious because we cannot explain it -- would not let go the spiritualistic theory, and during all my life has never quite surrendered it to the attacks of my brain. Sacred and Profane Love
A military surrender in Swat was legitimized by the national assembly when they passed the Taliban law called Nizam-e-Adl. Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
Don't freeze! Surrender to the breeze like the trees! RVM
As a consequence of the approach adopted by insurance companies on the early surrender of endowment policies, a market has developed in second-hand endowment policies.
They sat through the next dance, and through half the next, hidden in one of the many diminutive "parlors" that surrounded the ball-room, and when Susan was surrendered to an outraged partner she felt that she and the great man were fairly started toward a real friendship, and that these attractive boys she was dancing with were really very young, after all. Saturday's Child
At the sight of tank guns, the seemingly stubborn occupants surrendered almost immediately without a fight.
If you were spotted, a shot was fired directly over your head, and you then had to freeze and surrender.
The coming together of sperm and egg represents a moment of surrender to forces outside our control.
They do not attain such a total surrender of consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
General Martin Bonnet called on the rebels to surrender.
Forewarned is forearmed: If you know a food craving will strike, you can outwit it, rather than surrender to it. The Small Change Diet
These will need to be surrendered for each tonne of carbon dioxide that is emitted. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs. Plavsic was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal in 2003 after surrendering to the court and pleading guilty to one count as part of a plea bargain.
The guru-student relationship is popularly characterised in terms of the student surrendering completely to the will of the preceptor.
They claimed he was finally cornered in a pharmacy and was killed after refusing to surrender and opening fire with a 9mm Mauser pistol, which was purportedly recovered from his body.
The cabin or "cuddy," which had been surrendered to them by the fishermen who were now outside, was a diminutive place, smelling unpleasantly of fish and burnt grease. Frank Merriwell's Reward
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Robert F. Kennedy
To actively seek nothingness is worse than defeat; why, Kudra, it is surrender; craven, chickenhearted, dishonorable surrender. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
She tried to persuade the soldiers that they would not suffer reprisals if they surrendered.
She was not surprised, however, at the meek way in which the fallen dictator surrendered.
Surrender to your next inhalation, let the breath breathe you, and simultaneously relax the body as much as possible.
He then used his expertise to destroy the German Army at Stalingrad which lead to Field Marshall von Paulus surrendering his forces.
He smiled after a sickly fashion, and nodded his head in token of surrender. CHAPTER I
Gloriously defeated at the age of twenty-three, she committed suicide rather than suffer the shame of surrender.
His choreography surrendered to gravity and dealt in angles and broken lines as well as broken phrases.
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The enemy must decide between surrender and starvation.
The smaller aviation companies had also benefited from wartime orders and were tooling up for light aircraft production well before the final surrender documents had been signed.
I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world.
The new commander arrived at Generral Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims to negotiate a surrender.
After Wang, Zhang happening, can appear before court automatically, declared in a confession truthfully its delinquent account, is surrenders, may legally leniently or the mitigated punishment.
They are separated by nice questions of doctrine, especially as to the nature of prapatti, resignation or self-surrender to the deity, a sentiment slightly different from bhakti which is active faith or devotion. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
It repeated a call for offenders to surrender and for others to inform on them.
Sadness is easier because its surrender.
Steir voluntarily surrendered his license to the State.
The transport crews had a tendency to surrender before they were rendered totally defenseless.
In the first round, Mr. Carwin pounded Mr. Lesnar into chicken piccata, only to fall prey to Mr. Lesnar in the second round, surrendering after getting locked in a painful arm triangle. Tale of LeTape: The Weekend's Big Stories
In 112 BCE, the Han's southern campaign to "pacify" the Southern Yue subjugated the Southern and Western Barbarians, resulting in the establishment of Yuexi and Shenli commanderies. 21 In 109 BCE, the Han conquered the Laojin and Mimo peoples. 22 Under enormous military pressure, the king of Dian surrendered. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
A person on his or her face has surrendered their persona or ego identity in repentance or in petition or in adorational worship of that which is greater, be it to a person in fealty or to God as devotional prayer. Hogwarts Professor
He made advances on every young female in the palace, no doubt remembering the days when they lined up to surrender their maidenhead to the heir to the throne. Frog Breath
But no! Instead of surrendering tamely the inspired madmen in the cars ran amok and played a merry game of follow-my-leader up and down and round and through the ranks of the enemy, until they had fired off most of their ammunition. With Our Army in Palestine
And now all he, Cadwaladr, had to do was go to the meeting, behave himself seemly before other eyes, as he knew well how to do with grace, and in private surrender not one whit of his demands, and he would regain all, every yardland that had been taken from him, every man of his former following. His Disposition
In our system of government there is no provision for surrender.
I confess I pray still to feel the touch of my lover's lips. His hands upon me, his arms enfolding me... Such surrender has been mine.
The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers
In a statement issued last week announcing his intention to voluntarily report to the U.S. military, Jenkins said he had intended to surrender since the day he arrived in Japan.
The Norwegians eventually realised what was happening and chartered a seal-hunting ship to accept the unit's belated surrender.
It's head-to-head combat, and neither of you has any intentions of waving that white flag of surrender.
He publicly praised the perestroika and glasnost policy but confidentially criticised ‘unacceptable concessions’ and ‘power surrender’.
They were eventually able to combine with the partisans and force a German surrender.
After deadlocking, the Federal Trade Commission in 1993 surrendered jurisdiction over Microsoft to the Justice Department. American Sketches

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