Sentence examples for decided to capitulate from inspiring English sources

The Ottoman government, seeing eastern Turkey defenseless and fearing an Allied advance against Istanbul from the west now that Bulgaria had collapsed, decided to capitulate.

Mr. Ganek decided to capitulate, not even trying to persuade investors to keep their $4 billion in his hedge fund, Level Global Investors, people close to the fund said.

Republicans said that the House leadership decided to capitulate on paying for the tax cut because it appeared that Democrats were going to hold out in the talks and blame Republicans for the impasse if there were no resolution.

A former council president, Marc Angel, a sharp critic, told me the group "decided to capitulate" to Amar and robbed individual rabbis of their prerogative to measure the needs and commitment of prospective converts.

Bowing to pressure from Republican leaders in Congress, the Smithsonian institution capitulated and decided to remove the work of art, found objectionable by an elite, rather than stick to its curatorial standards.

Cloedt declined to capitulate, politely.

He chose to capitulate.

The officials were wise to capitulate.

To capitulate is "to yield; acquiesce; surrender".

"We are not going to capitulate".

The finitude of forests ReprintsThe government was wise to capitulate.