Sentence examples for Over the surrender from inspiring English sources

She presided over the surrender of 18,000 German troops.

And the negotiations with Mullah Omar over the surrender of Kandahar, and his fate, are with the southern Pashtun tribes.

As Taliban and Northern Alliance troops embraced, Rosmohammed Uria, the alliance general who presided over the surrender, smiled.

"Was it for this?" asked the Irish Times plaintively, evoking the poetry of WB Yeats from 1913 to grieve over the surrender of Irish sovereignty to a bunch of IMF and ECB accountants.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a brave man who lived a fascinating life – he survived illness and serious wounds, presided over the surrender of arms at Appomattox, and later won four terms as governor of his state.

The man appointed today to lead Afghanistan's new interim government, Hamid Karzai, said tonight that he had begun talks with senior Taliban officials over the surrender of Kandahar, the last major stronghold of the Taliban and Arab fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden.

The two Japanese swords handed over in the surrender ceremony, together with the sword worn by Sturdee, which was his father's, were presented to the Australian War Memorial by Lady Sturdee in 1982.

The commentator said, "Symbolically, the sun has come out and is shining over Tokyo Bay as the surrender is signed and peace is with us".

Gopnik described the remarks made by Commander George Lee Weddington, Jr., who spoke of the general from the Secessionist point of view: He ran over the terms of the surrender, and pointed out — with a feeling, as though it had happened yesterday — that General Grant had allowed the Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and the men to keep their horses and mules.

I walked into the full body scanner, put my hands over my head in the "surrender" position, and was scanned.

18. Tony and Cherie Blair Property portfolioists Recriminations over Iraq and the surrender of power failed to fatally humiliate the Blairs, who serenely get richer, aided by a ludicrously self-justifying memoir.