Sentence examples for a flag of surrender from inspiring English sources

A story titled "A Flag of Surrender" could be about many things, both political and personal: "A thorn daringly pierced a jasmine petal and felt proud.

The second flag they chose, some said, looked too much like a flag of surrender.

She didn't realize that in so doing she had become a flag of surrender".

Appearing on the same show, Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, said he viewed Mr. Van Hollen's remarks as a flag of surrender.

"I take this persiflage to be a flag of surrender," Macdonald replied, "but hadn't expected the flag to be so white.

She tells him he seems nervous, not knowing that one of his hands is hovering above her back, trembling like a flag of surrender.

A kitchen sink with a sudsy mess of baby bottles, an orchestra of boiling pots and a white flag of surrender: the bleached diaper on a clothesline.

Although Lucent officials framed the move as a way to better focus its efforts there, it is in fact a white flag of surrender in a market it once hoped would generate growth.

It would be wrong to say his lineup represented a white flag of surrender but it was a close-run thing at times.

Critics of Mr. McClendon see the proposed settlement with the township as a white flag of surrender, essentially granting him a waiver from zoning restrictions and allowing him to build a 66-slip marina, 9-story hotel, golf course and up to 100 residential units.

Baker, whose "inestimable gift," a critic once rightly noted, lies in "describing the indescribable," is waving a rare flag of surrender, struck silent by what appears to be awe.