Sentence examples for a quick capitulation from inspiring English sources
French Commander in Chief General Maurice Gamelin feared the Dutch would be tempted into a quick capitulation or even an acceptance of German protection.
Those orchestrated confessions led to allegations that the American prisoners had been "brainwashed," and provoked the military to revamp its training to give some military personnel a taste of the enemies' harsh methods to inoculate them against quick capitulation if captured.
France's quick capitulation to the Nazi occupation — the "strange defeat" of 1940 — and the French collaboration in the deportation of Jews were acts of a nation whose own experiment with liberal democracy, the Third Republic, had been troubled.
This quick capitulation will be noted by Tory MPs: by those who wasted their breath defending a policy, only to see it jettisoned, and those on the right who have a taste for rebellion.
This quick capitulation to protests and what one museum spokeswoman said were "threats of violence," which was quickly followed by the preemptive removal of a provocative artwork at the Louvre in Paris, provides a stark reminder of the hotly contested space that art occupies.
Now the stages of decline that he maps out in the book — hubris born of success; undisciplined pursuit of more; denial of risk and peril; grasping for salvation with a quick, big solution; and capitulation to irrelevance or death — offer a kind of instant autopsy for an economy on the stretcher.
Meanwhile Ian Poulter is out, and he needs a quick start, especially after his desperate capitulation towards the end of last night's round.
"Only a capitulation by Mr Tsipras could ensure a quick resolution [of the bail-out negotiations]," says a Greek veteran of previous negotiating rounds with the EU and IMF.As the struggles at the central-committee meeting showed, some prominent members of Syriza are equally unconvinced by the premier's upbeat messages.
Putin saw the new textbooks as a kasha, a muddle — a capitulation to Russia's detractors.
