Sentence examples for an act of surrender from inspiring English sources

All this may look like defiance, but it's really an act of surrender.

Abandoning democratic institutions in the face of terrorism is an act of surrender.

It was not quite an act of surrender, although it had a pleading touch.

In slow, backward-arching lunges, the dancers lift their arms to the sky — an act of surrender, or supplication.

The goal is to get people to gain control over their lives, but it all begins with an act of surrender and an admission of weakness.

For Israelis could see this as an act of surrender, an incentive not for peace but for more seizure of Palestinian land and total suffocation of Palestinian life.

With the Yankees, George Steinbrenner was strictly a one-man show until it became an act of physical surrender to Hank and Hal.

But the manner in which their heads dropped, an act of blatant surrender, when Álvaro Morata opened the scoring late in the first half said much more.

Although Michael believed the Poles were playing for time to allow Ramorino's Corps to return from Podlasie, Prądzyński convinced him to send General Berg to Warsaw with a draft of an act of unconditional surrender.

He formally instituted the hajj to Mecca and fasting during the month of Ramadan as distinctive cultic acts, in recognition of the fact that islām, a generic act of surrender to God, had become Islam, a proper-name identity distinguished not only from paganism but from other forms of monotheism as well.

The performance is a fearless act of surrender.