Sentence examples for at the capitulation from inspiring English sources

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In World War II Germany built 1,162 U-boats, of which 785 were destroyed and the remainder surrendered (or were scuttled to avoid surrender) at the capitulation.

It was taken over by BBVA last year for just $117m or $0.117 billion, in venture-capitalist language.The threat the fintechers pose to incumbents is that they might just seize the profitable add-onsYet bankers who cheered at the capitulation of a fintech darling making a grab for their core business missed the point.

It occurred at a time when the Allied nations had experienced nothing but defeat, in France, at Salonika and at the capitulation of Kut in Mesopotamia.

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The Staatsoper itself directly abuts the Bebelplatz, the infamous site of the Nazi book-burning in 1933, an event that the Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth described unflinchingly at the time as the capitulation of the European mind.

After two magazines caught fire, the commandant was summoned again to surrender; there was some delay, but a flag of truce was sent at 2100, and the capitulation was concluded at 0100 the next day.

At the time of the capitulation, the Poles held at least 3000 Russian prisoners of war in Warsaw; the Russians held 2590 captives.

"In the context of the beginning of the war in Iraq," says Kenneth Watman at the Naval War College, "capitulation comes before a fight, surrender comes after".

Profligacy in front of goal hurt the French champions throughout the 90 minutes, but more worrying for Garcia will be the capitulation at the back.

Even in light of the nature of the capitulation at Lord's it is a perfectly reasonable and reasoned response, based on rather more than simply the idea that these players got England into the mess so they can jolly well get them out of it as well.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas assailed that refusal, saying at the time that the "capitulation to Communist China by the Obama administration marks a sad day in American foreign policy, and it represents a slap in the face to a strong ally and longtime friend".

After the capitulation at Ulm, isolated portions of the Austrian military evaded capture and joined with their Russian allies; Michael von Kienmayer's corps slipped out of the encirclement and joined Kutuzov's force.

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