The phrase "a position of surrender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state or condition where someone has given up or yielded in a situation, often in a conflict or negotiation context.
Example: "After hours of intense negotiation, they found themselves in a position of surrender, realizing they could no longer hold out against the demands."
Alternatives: "a state of capitulation" or "a stance of yielding".
Witnesses say Brown, 18, was shot with his hands in the air in a position of surrender, while police claim officer Darren Wilson shot him during an altercation.
Besiktas fans at the Istanbul match paid tribute to witness accounts that Brown was in a position of surrender at the time he was killed, holding up a sign showing a person with their hands in the air and the quotes "No racism" and "#RIP Mike Brown".
Witnesses have said Mr Brown was shot as he held his hands up in a position of surrender, while the police and supporters of Mr Wilson have said he fired during a fight with Mr Brown.
Khamenei knows that Obama is in a position of surrender, and the president will have no other option than to continue giving in to the Supreme Leader's demands or intentionally refuse to address the real issues until he leaves the White House and delegates the problematic deal to the next U.S. president.
They cannot put themselves in a position of acquiescing in the surrender of what they (and their constituency) perceive to be Palestinian territory by unilateral Israeli steps.
Iran Inc. is in the mood for negotiations, but Khamenei wants them to be conducted from a position of strength and will never surrender the country's right to enrich uranium.
On the New Republic Web site, the international-relations expert Ronald Steel wrote that Tenet "exemplifies the rule that those in high places will endure virtually any humiliation before surrendering a position of power".
It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.
And yet, by the end of the discussions Obama had worked himself down to a position where only surrender was possible.
Olaore's last post at Babcock was as an associate professor of education, a position he only surrendered when his three adult children asked their father to move closer to them in the United States.
The Romans' influence in the east had expanded to such a degree that they were in a position to demand the surrender of Hannibal.
