Sentence examples for as we surrendered from inspiring English sources

And as we surrendered our hard-fought ground, leaving nature to play out its drama in the dark of our absence, we were at once humbled and brought closer.

Out of choice and necessity, as we surrendered to his lot and ours, when we chose to remove William from life support, we offered his story to virtually everyone we knew in the days just prior to his death and in the interim before his memorial service.

In this anxiety, too, we are at one with our grandparents: buying the toys that keep our children in close contact with the tree, even as we surrender to the iPad.

-Will we even have the chance to? -It is more likely that it will just come about naturally, as we surrender task after task.

During debates on the U.S.A. Patriot Act in 2001, one senator invoked a founding father: "As Ben Franklin once noted, 'if we surrender our liberty in the name of security, we shall have neither".' In fact Franklin's words were more nuanced: "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety".

But it's for the best — these are exactly the questions we should be asking companies as we increasingly surrender our private domain to connected devices.

As parents, we have surrendered our kids' future to fatten the wallets of corporations like McDonald's.

We take the dialectic as far as we can, then surrender to beauty with relief.

At its core, their opinion was a declaration that could fairly be translated as: "We will never surrender".

The three added: "For the sake of the occupiers' safety, for the sake of our original intention of love and peace, as we prepare to surrender, we three urge the students to retreat - to put down deep roots in the community and transform the movement to extend the spirit of the Umbrella Movement".

"As I'm slowly being tied up, I just as slowly surrender to the pain and, eventually, accept it".