"There is no doubt that the evacuation of Homs is a victory for the regime, although it is not a clear-cut surrender.
Obama's deal to continue the Bush tax cuts, his surrender of a public option on health care, his refusal to call the Republicans' bluff on the debt ceiling rather than swallow budget cuts — these and other compromises amount, in the eyes of the Democratic left, to crimes of appeasement.
Deals were often cut between surrendering forces and the Northern Alliance, as we had previously seen in the northern city of Taloqan, where hundreds of well-armed Uzbek fighters for the other side were allowed to cross the battle lines, harbored by commanders who had come to agreements with them, given them safe refuge, and allowed them to keep their guns.
Dan Westgarth, Darlington Rating: 5 out of 5 After a two day power cut we surrendered and decided to go to the pictures - me, my wife, daughter home from uni, son and two friends on a sleepover (in the cold and dark).
Even better, you haven't actually cost them a bottle they pocket their cut without surrendering any inventory.
Cutting against any surrender to schmaltz is a clear-eyed portrait of a country succumbing to nazism.
Now that Boehner has blown any leverage he had in talks, he has little choice but to surrender and cut a deal quickly.
To cut his losses Candiotti surrendered the policies and in 2009 filed suit in Arizona state court against everyone involved in the transaction, alleging fraud, misrepresentation and a failure to disclose the risk that the policy earnings would not cover the debt.
They acquired him yesterday from the Houston Astros for a cut-rate price, surrendering relief pitcher David Weathers and the fringe pitching prospect Jeremy Griffiths and adding only about $1 million to the team's payroll.
Siege of Charleston, (1780) during the American Revolution, British land and sea campaign that cut off and forced the surrender of Charleston, S.C., the principal port city of the southern American colonies.
At the heart of the DoJ's beef with these publishers is their adoption of Apple's agency book-selling model, under which publishers can set e-book prices on their own, but surrender a 30% cut from each sale to Apple.
