Sentence examples for capitulates from inspiring English sources

Better, he thinks, to amass an imposing force, which will increase the chances that Iraq capitulates without a fight, and allow General Franks to respond to any contingencies or counter-attacks.Amid all the propaganda and conjecture, some probable elements of an American campaign can be identified.

But the liberal revolt does help demonstrate the costs the administration will pay if it capitulates on the upper-bracket Bush tax cuts in 2012.

He has a realistic view of the South's chances in the war, but, just before the South capitulates, he joins its hopeless cause.

But the born-this-way argument, she rages, indignant, "will backfire – it capitulates to bigots, and lets them set the agenda.

"Channel will not be able to deal with the volume of returnees if Isis capitulates and that is where it needs to be expanded," Mr Rafiq said.

If at the eleventh hour Saddam Hussein capitulates to a comprehensive United Nations weapons inspection, it might be a long time before we will know whether he has spared us the horror of war or merely postponed — and possibly heightened — 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.

Last year he capitulated to avoid the risk of what he called a "death spiral" of defections.

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.

That said, Australia capitulated woefully in the second half, with Ecuador's myriad changes at half-time paying off.

However, she has since declared that she would back him following claims in the media that she was capitulating too easily to British demands.