Sentence examples for demand to surrender from inspiring English sources

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B4 FOREIGN RESPONSES The Taliban rebuff a demand to surrender Osama bin Laden, but set a high-level meeting for today to make a final decision.

Photo: The Lebanese Army continued yesterday to attack militants of Fatah al Islam, a group inspired by Al Qaeda, in the Nahr al Bared refugee camp after they refused a demand to surrender.

To a demand to surrender he is said to have replied with a single shouted word: "Merde!" Both Kershaw and Cornwell render the defiant monosyllable as "Shit!" That is not a wrong translation of the French word, but it is not the right English word for the occasion.

After Hewlett rejected Parsons' demand to surrender, a brief firefight ensued that did no significant damage.

David Herold surrendered, but Booth refused Conger's demand to surrender, saying "I prefer to come out and fight"; the soldiers then set the barn on fire.

The Villa del Salto ignored warning shots and a demand to surrender; after a desperate run from the Brazilian warships, it escaped to Argentine waters.

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Mr. Cox said it was "undisputed" that the imam, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed in the raid, fired at agents, resisted arrest and rejected demands to surrender.

The military that seized power with Mr. Mubarak's fall rebuffed protesters' demands to surrender authority this week, and the political elite has seemed paralyzed or defensive over the unrest.

The Taliban was warned, he said, to meet America's demands to surrender Mr. bin Laden, stop supporting terrorism and release foreign aid workers they hold.

The Foreign Ministry rejected China's demands to surrender four North Koreans who have sought asylum in the South Korean embassy in Beijing.

Speculation has mounted, however, as to how Mr Assad's fragile regime may respond to its possible implication in the Hariri murder, and to consequent demands to surrender officials for trial.

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