Sentence examples for a quick surrender from inspiring English sources

The German forces bypassed the Maginot Line, attacked directly through the Ardennes Forest, and dashed to the French rear, sowing chaos en route and forcing a quick surrender.

The attacks on Thursday, while substantial, fell short of the all-out bombardment promised by the Pentagon as the most effective means to force a quick surrender.

When the English invaders appeared in 1664, the Dutch merchants in Lower Manhattan knew fighting would be bad for business and successfully urged a quick surrender.

Lemelsen reached Bolzano, and Schulz and Wenzel regained control, this time agreeing with the officers pushing for a quick surrender.

On 9 June the Allies held a conference in London to examine the reasons behind the quick surrender of Fort Rupel and favored a complete demobilization of the Greek army and navy.

But if Japan's quick surrender just after the bombings was a coincidence it was a fortunate one, for it gave the A-bomb a mystique, an aura of apocalyptic sudden-death doom, that was an important reason the bomb was not used in the ensuing half century.

One of its original elements is likely to be the restraint with which America chooses its targets.A massive show of force will help to precipitate a quick Iraqi surrender, and demonstrate America's power to other potential adversaries.

A quick Japanese surrender appeared to justify Truman's choice.

Fagel now proposed to treat the liberated provinces of Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel as conquered territory (Generality Lands), as punishment for their quick surrender to the enemy.

Very few government servants were selected to serve on these committees, due to anti-government sentiments; most internees blamed the government for the quick surrender of Hong Kong.

That might be the quickest surrender to the postseason by any team in any sport in any era.