Sentence examples for decisive surrender from inspiring English sources

Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism".

Perhaps its long exile explains the ruinous fatuousness of such manifestoes as the declaration on Sept. 20 , 2001 that failure to invade Iraq "will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism" -- a declaration by William Kristol and fellow conservatives.

In three successive games, he squandered a 4-2 lead over Florida by giving up four runs in the ninth inning for a 6-4 loss; came into a 5-5 game in the ninth inning and surrendered the decisive run to Atlanta; and entered the next game, also tied, in the ninth and allowed the Braves to take a 2-1 lead that the Dodgers overcame for an 11-inning, 3-2 victory.

The Livonian Order sent troops to Königsberg and the joint forces defeated the Sambians in a decisive battle forcing them to surrender.

"Good fortune shines on him". AP) MOELLER QUITS JAGUARS: Gary Moeller stepped down yesterday as defensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars after a season in which his defense surrendered the late decisive score in six of 10 losses.

Lafayette helped lead the decisive Yorktown campaign, leading to the surrender of British Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.

But was the A-bomb truly decisive in convincing the Japanese to surrender?

It was a decisive British victory that gained the surrender of the remnent of the garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan Island.

Murray Sayle argues, and persuasively, that it was not the bomb that precipitated Japan's surrender--that the decisive event was the Soviet Union's entry into the Pacific war, which raised the spectre of the division and partial Communization of the Japanese home islands.

Even the decisive goal, which began with Nabil Bentaleb surrendering possession and finished with the ball at Wayne Rooney's feet on the penalty spot, betrayed a lack of sharpness.

Although unable to attain a decisive victory or induce the city to surrender, Alcibiades was able to win a small tactical land battle outside of the city gates and Theramenes concluded an agreement with the Chalcedonians.