Sentence examples for couldn't surrender from inspiring English sources

"They couldn't surrender fast enough.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it.

I sat through through the resulting piece in a mood of deep respect but I found that I couldn't surrender to it.

Critics in the United States compared the band impact to Bruce Springsteen's, but American record buyers didn't follow suit, possibly because they couldn't surrender Mr. Springsteen's thrill of the open road for Mr. Parker's desperation in an English cul-de-sac.

An aerospace executive, he travels every week and said he could not surrender his passport for the six-month period it can take the Home Office to process applications.

The Apache helicopter pilots killed both Iraqi men after being advised by a US military lawyer that they could not surrender to an aircraft and therefore remained valid targets.

But we won't come to him as part of an initiative of states, states are already passé, we'll come through companies, through corporations, they're the ones who run the world today …" This is how he thought and acted throughout his life: the present – the disheartening, feeble, shoal of now – was just a momentary obstacle to which one could not surrender.

The commanders of the fort explained that they could not surrender it without disobeying the Sultan's orders, but also recognised that it was impossible for them to resist.

Andrews noted that he had not "been loud, a declaimer, parading my views, ambitiously or otherwise" but insisted as a matter of academic principle that he could not surrender his freedom of speech.

After a decade of struggle, profits were as far off as ever, yet the company couldn't simply surrender and abandon what will be one of the world's leading economies in 10 or 20 years.

The trouble was that though he could encompass his obsessions, he could not entirely surrender to his imagination.