Sentence examples for able to surrender it from inspiring English sources

Along with Peter Diamond, an emeritus professor at M.I.T. and a Nobel laureate, Mr. Saez has estimated the "optimal" top tax rates for the wealthy — getting the most revenue from those most able to surrender it — to be between 45 and 70 percent.

And in embracing it, I was able to surrender to the book, letting its short, sharp prose jab at me and feeling a sort of numbness take hold.

Despite the program's rigidity, I seemed to be able to surrender to the routine of it.

We've lost a war without being able to surrender -- and thus divest ourselves of the consciousness that got us into it.

That doesn't mean I've given up, it simply means I'm comfortable with my own performance level and able to surrender.

To surrender it means inviting terrorists to come to us".

But no one was going to surrender it either.

"But over time, I realized that I hoped that she was able to surrender into something more powerful," she said.

But because I had such confidence in the guides I was working with, I was able to surrender and accept the dissolution of self or ego.

Some of the more reflective interviews here come from Obama and George W. Bush, who both honor the richness and historical value of having a camera around all the time - even when they might have preferred not to - and how they are able to surrender themselves to the process.

Only intermittently was he able to surrender what he knew to what struck his eye — though he did so beautifully, in 1867, with unusually relaxed views of an old coastal fortress, in the South of France, awash in golden sunlight beneath piercingly blue skies.