Sentence examples for amounting to a surrender from inspiring English sources

Now she is facing what may be a more serious threat to her political future: the growing rebellion of council members who have criticized her attempts to limit damage from the revelations as amounting to a surrender of power to the mayor.

He argued that its terms amounted to a surrender to the FARC and would enable the leftist political phenomenon he calls "Castrochavismo" to take over Colombia.

Military planners voiced concerns about the consequences for their national military airspace; politicians balked at what amounted to a surrender of sovereignty.

Her decision to retire in September amounted to a surrender of sorts, a powerful acknowledgment of the two women's reversed fortunes under the Trump administration.

Germany did not want to pay to bail out its less fortunate neighbors unless they agreed to severe austerity and to what amounted to a surrender of sovereignty — ideas that other countries were loath to accept.

Because the money didn't directly pay for abortions, they have insisted, the existing grants were already entirely apolitical, and any change amounted to a surrender to what Mother Jones's Kevin Drum called the right's anti-Planned Parenthood jihad.

Administration officials have said that the White House is leaning toward relaxing the rules, a move that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said today amounted to a "surrender to special interests and polluters".

While the provisional government in Kiev has insisted that Russia's annexation of Crimea is illegal and has appealed to international supporters for help, the evacuation announcement by the head of the national security council, Andriy Parubiy, effectively amounted to a surrender of Crimea, at least from a military standpoint.

"Senator McCain's suggestion that withdrawing troops amounts to a surrender is a cynical effort to drum up votes by reducing the fate of Iraq to a pride drama.

A retired brigadier, Mehmood Shah, said the 2005 peace deal amounted to a total "surrender" to Mr. Mehsud, from which he had advanced virtually unhindered.

And then there are the reported terms of the deal, which amount to an abject surrender on the part of the president.