The majority of MPs now appreciate that the long-term effects of surrender to the sovereignty of Strasbourg could be dire.
Every day a polyglot, multiparty assembly — of former prisoners and their onetime oppressors, Communists and Bantustan autocrats and Afrikaner nationalists and union militants — mingled in a conference center outside Johannesburg to discuss what would be, in effect, the terms of surrender.
Two were at the Rambouillet talks: in February when Robin Cook boasted to parliament of agreement on 90% of peace terms which the Serbs were prepared to sign, then in March, when the Serbs were again willing to sign - until a secret appendix was handed to them on the last day, demanding, in effect, they surrender all of Yugoslavia to Nato's occupation.
There is a genuine question about whether giving a platform to a figure like Ahmadinejad sanctions his views or shows them in an unflattering light — whether the effect of the invitation is intellectual surrender or intellectual engagement.
Three years ago, by passively accepting what was, in effect, a demotion, you sent out a sort of surrender signal.
Even if the Cold War did not start with "Operation Sunrise," the long-lasting effects of the secret surrender were not trivial.
We hold only that a stay order is final when the sole purpose and effect of the stay is precisely to surrender jurisdiction of a federal suit to a state court.
Initially, Gizab belonged to Daykundi, much to the aggravation of some of its Pashtun population, who responded by in effect surrendering control of the area to the Taliban.
It is a way of surrender.
It requires a degree of surrender.
Their posture is expressive purely of surrender.
