Sentence examples for avoid surrendering from inspiring English sources

The transaction helped Lloyds avoid surrendering an even bigger stake to the British government.

Ocupar para não entregar — "occupy it to avoid surrendering it" — was the slogan of the day.

Nixon's particular portfolio of eccentricities, of course, included recording himself, not managing to avoid surrendering the tapes to the authorities, and incriminating himself.

He also asserts in his memoirs that Pemberton in particular wanted to avoid surrendering on July 4, and thus by holding out for better terms he defeated his own purposes.

Researchers first viewed the geoglyphs in the 1970s, after Brazil's military dictatorship encouraged settlers to move to Acre and other parts of the Amazon, using the nationalist slogan "occupy to avoid surrendering" to justify the settlement that resulted in deforestation.

Though Brazilian officials have historically viewed the colonization of the Amazon as a matter of national security — military rulers built roads to the forest under the slogan "Occupy it to avoid surrendering it" — deforestation in the region already ranks among the largest contributors to global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Gary Cahill declared Chelsea's second-half fightback at Brentford proved their players were fully behind Rafael Benitez after they narrowly avoided surrendering the FA Cup.

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.

In other words, the German high command had abandoned hope of victory or even of holding their gains and hoped only to avoid surrender.

The conference took place on the 42nd anniversary of the 1969 coup that brought Colonel Qaddafi to power, which one of Libya's representatives, Mahmoud Jibril, said was an important marker for the Libyan people, especially with the colonel and at least two of his sons now in hiding and still trying to avoid surrender.

After the war, Hindman avoided surrender to the federal government by fleeing to Mexico City.