Sentence examples for an act of capitulation from inspiring English sources

"It was an act of capitulation," says Maleeha Lodhi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States.

What he called in his speech "a political culture in which accord has been seen as an act of capitulation" is clearly alive and thriving.

In any case, the worst king of England is best remembered for an act of capitulation: in 1215, he pledged to his barons that he would obey "the law of the land" when he affixed his seal to a charter that came to be called Magna Carta.

And a commentator in the staunchly pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet called turning to the IMF "an act of capitulation" similar to a restaurant bowing to a blackmailer's demand to pay protection money, or watch his business burnt to the ground.

The emperor deserting the capital would have been viewed as an act of capitulation, so court officials convinced him to abdicate.

The metamodernist's response -- that journalistically, and in a concept-driven way, accounting for our circumstances is not an act of capitulation but of necessary preparation for subsequent commitments -- is a non-starter in these cliques.

This was a just and commendable decision, which many are likely to misinterpret as an act of unconscionable capitulation to an angry mob.

He did — out of fear of imprisonment, he later said — and came to regret his capitulation, calling it an act of "self-pollution".

Sillitoe's story seemed the perfect vehicle: the famously ambiguous conclusion (in which Colin deliberately loses the race) leaves it up to the reader to decide whether this is an act of rebellion against the established order, or a capitulation.

The idea of beauty as a site of resistance rather than capitulation is often traced back to Audre Lorde, who, in 1988, wrote, "Caring for myself is not an act of self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare".

However, many Egyptians saw the withholding of aid as the capitulation of the American government to the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood - a group that has been explicitly labeled as a terrorist organization worthy of eradication by the Egyptian government - and an act of hostility toward the wishes of the Egyptian populace.