The phrase "a form of surrender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or decision that signifies giving up or yielding in a particular situation.
Example: "In the face of overwhelming odds, his decision to withdraw was seen as a form of surrender."
Alternatives: "an act of capitulation" or "a gesture of yielding."
"Wearing the hospital gown is like a form of surrender I'm not willing to do yet".
Turkish generals believe that negotiating would be a form of surrender, and would constitute intolerable disrespect to soldiers who have been killed over the years.
Immersion in the technical grants access to the full rip of the oceanic sense: a mastery that is a form of surrender.
Too often their old conception of conservatism strikes others in the G.O.P. as a form of surrender or, at the very least, an acceptance of the liberal status quo.
Most musicians would consider this a form of surrender, but for Jones it was just the first of many transformations; looking back, it's almost impossible to imagine him doing anything as single-minded as playing the trumpet.
If Dr. Stein has a tendency to dramatize Lucy's plight, palpitate in her presence and even swoon a little ("Was meeting the eyes of a man in a small, closed room a form of surrender?"), he also has a different take on a familiar situation.
Each choice has an outcome with consequences, nothing more and nothing less, we are all doing the best that we can. 3. Breathing is not just for yogis Breathing is a form of surrendering, it is a moment of letting go.
Not only was the dictator personally obsessed with the idea that a heroic defeat was preferable to any form of surrender, he had also concentrated such an unchallenged system of power in his own hands that he was effectively able to drag all of Germany with him into the abyss.
Games are, for me, a form of necessary surrender.
Any over-eager embrace of the United States would tend to undermine Mr. Kostunica's political standing at this stage because a majority of Serbs might see it as a form of moral surrender.
But few accounts preserve the gleeful idealism of the "head," or consider the turn from psychedelic exploration to the amorphous hierarchies of the Silicon Valley workplace as a form of pragmatic surrender.
