Sentence examples for demanded the surrender of from inspiring English sources

Nazism threatened the body, whereas Communism demanded the surrender of the soul.

After crushing the rebellion of Thebes (335), Alexander the Great of Macedonia demanded the surrender of Charidemus, who escaped with banishment.

After conquering Thebes (335), Alexander the Great (Philip II's son) is said to have demanded the surrender of Chares, among others, but Chares escaped to the Troad.

The rebuff was as blunt as any the Taliban leader has given since President Bush demanded the surrender of Mr. bin Laden.

Chinese officials demanded the surrender of the "lawbreakers" in Lhasa and offered leniency to people who turned themselves into the authorities by midnight Monday.

On March 18 and 19, with tensions building, an armed force of Métis formed a provisional government, seized the parish church at Batoche, and demanded the surrender of the nearby Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Carlton.

But on Oct. 14, 1525, he arrested Morone, marched on Milan, and forced the Milanese to swear allegiance to the emperor, demanding the surrender of the citadels of Milan and Cremona (southeast of Milan).

TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan rebels' transitional government on Thursday extended by a week its ultimatum demanding the surrender of the loyalists of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi who control his hometown, Surt.

DuPont's original battle plan and orders were to sail directly past Fort Sumter without engaging the fort, until arriving at the more lightly guarded inner harbor, where the Union guns could demand the surrender of the town.

"The worst of the policy choices include the nationalisation of farmland, which destroyed its collateral value, and the indigenisation policy, through which government demands the surrender of 51 per cent of the shares in every business owned by a non-indigenous person or company".

Ukrainian defence sources have accused Russia's military of demanding the surrender of their forces in Crimea.