Machines are either out to eliminate us (Skynet from Terminator 2, Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey), or to hoodwink us into a state of surrender (the simulated world of The Matrix, the pampered couch potatoes of WALL-E).
I do not live my life in a state of surrender all of the time, but my intention is to continue to let go of my preoccupation with myself -- looking good and getting it right -- and to wake up more and more fully to the awareness of myself as love.
After spending two weeks in a psychiatric ward, a state assemblyman surrendered to the police yesterday and was charged with the burglary of a female aide's home last fall.
The lead did not last long; Kenny Bell returned the ensuing kickoff for a 99 yard touchdown, the second consecutive week Penn State surrendered a return touchdown.
The children in Pibor, Jonglei State, surrendered their weapons and uniforms in a ceremony overseen by the South Sudan National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission, and the Cobra Faction and supported by UNICEF.
EVER since Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in 2008 a common assumption has been that the crisis happened because the state surrendered control of finance to the market.
If the state surrenders, what will happen next?" Asma Jahangir, one of the country's leading rights activists, condemned the flogging as "intolerable".
The father, Oghad Singh of Dungarji village in Rajasthan State, surrendered at the Charbhuja police station, carrying the head of his 20-year-old daughter in one hand and the bloodied sword in the other.
In modern times, the majority of protectorates have been established by treaty by the terms of which the weaker state surrenders the management of all its more important international relations.
I recently read an opinion piece by Frank Bruni in the New York Times in which he states, "[America is] a country surrendering to a new identity and era, in which optimism is quaint and the frontier anything but endless".
