Sentence examples for capitulate from inspiring English sources

A country full of doubts and fears, though emphatic in its message that envisager un report, c'est capituler – "to consider postponing is to capitulate" – as the head of the tournament's organising committee has put it.

With only an outline sketch of an agreement on the table, many of Europe's most senior policymakers are of the opinion that a crisis point will be reached and that Athens's radical left Syriza government will be forced to either capitulate to Brussels or quit the euro.

If things carry on like this then, by the end of this summer, Syriza will either take Greece out of the euro or – however large its democratic mandate – it will be forced to chuck its electoral promises and capitulate.

Having joined Davis on the stump, it would now be exceedingly difficult for him to capitulate and allow the government to push the counter-terrorism bill through via the Parliament Act.

"No Australian government should be subjected to the spectacle of people saying, 'Unless you accept us, I am going to commit self-harm.' "I don't believe any Australian – any thinking Australian – would want us to capitulate to moral blackmail".

Johnson – I refuse absolutely to capitulate to the habit of calling him by his first name in print and hereby urge all fellow members of the Society of Columnists and Allied Trades to do the same – has won two successive head-to-head contests against Labour in a city that has been moving leftwards in most other recent elections.

He refused to speculate on whether Greece would be forced to default on its debts, but said the government had contingency plans in the event that the worst-affected eurozone country did capitulate.