And the forthcoming iBooks marketplace means that Amazon no longer has absolute authority on the price of electronic books (an authority Amazon tried to impose on Friday by refusing to sell books from Macmillan after the publisher insisted on pricing similar to the iPad; Amazon backed down Sunday night, saying it would "capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms").
Suddenly, Amazon backed down; it posted on its website that it would "capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms". So it was all good, right?
I explained: I'd capitulated to the last steak maniac, on the second visit to the restaurant, and there really, truly, honestly wasn't any way to justify a third examination of the steak.
The plan that Central Command wrote under Secretary Rumsfeld's close supervision was also based on hopelessly optimistic Central Intelligence Agency predictions that Iraqi units would capitulate -- i.e. not merely surrender but also change sides.
The Trump administration wrongly assumed China would capitulate in a trade war.
Napoleon thought that, once Moscow was taken, the tsar would capitulate.
Mebazaa then announced that his government would capitulate to all the demands of the protest movement.
It is unlikely that these states would capitulate to a nuclear Iran rather than rely on an American deterrent threat.
In March of 2009, a senior White House official outlined a strategy for a "grand bargain," in which Democrats would capitulate to Republicans on some long-cherished environmental beliefs in exchange for a cap on carbon emissions.
Boris Johnson may have thought he had discovered Italy's achilles heel when he suggested in a private meeting recently that the country would capitulate to British demands in Brexit negotiations because it would be loath to "sell less prosecco".
Veteran advocates and many lawmakers expressed concerns about Jackson's lack of management experience, and some have worried that he would capitulate to Trump's goal of outsourcing more veteran services.
