Sentence examples for constitutes surrender from inspiring English sources

There is a strong feeling within the republican movement that disarmament constitutes surrender, and it has made the I.R.A. extremely reluctant to turn over arms.

Within Tea Party circles that constitutes surrender to the Chamber of Commerce, a bastion of liberalism.

CHICAGO — In some circles, twirling white towels against a background of black might constitute surrender.

Putting arms beyond use could be a method of destroying arms or sealing off arms caches that would allow the I.R.A. to disarm in a way that did not constitute surrender in its eyes.

Though the government had refused to budge, the protesters emphasized that their retreat did not constitute a surrender.

The question of whether the presence of American soldiers manning the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia constitutes such a surrender of holy Islamic ground to "infidels" is one that now divides the House of Saud from its most notorious former citizen.

The U.S. press was not allowed on the islands, but O'Reilly asserts that the unrest in Buenos Aires following Argentina's surrender constituted "combat".

This conception – 'articulated around power [viewed] as a primal right that is surrendered, and which constitutes sovereignty' – elevates the social contract as the 'matrix of political power' (Foucault, 2004[1976b]: 16 17).

Not only does the representation of sovereignty constitute, for Rousseau, a surrender of moral agency, the widespread desire to be represented in the business of self-rule is a symptom of moral decline and the loss of virtue.

Since body and self are for Kant inseparable and together they constitute the person, in surrendering her body (her sex) exclusively to her male partner, the woman surrenders her whole person to the man, allowing him to possess it.

What constitutes male, what constitutes female?