Sentence examples for forced to capitulate from inspiring English sources

In the end, Bernard Ingham was forced to capitulate.

"If anyone has been forced to capitulate here, it's Germany".

Reagan was forced to capitulate on the issue.

The Germans besieged the city, and 54 days later the French were forced to capitulate.

"We did try to manufacture in Britain but were forced to capitulate," he said.

Forced to capitulate, he delivered a radio address "punctuated by long lapses and loud sobbing".

With only an outline sketch of an agreement on the table, many of Europe's most senior policymakers are of the opinion that a crisis point will be reached and that Athens's radical left Syriza government will be forced to either capitulate to Brussels or quit the euro.

He has held a series of hunger strikes to force the state government to enact reforms and on at least one occasion forced it to capitulate by taking a vow of silence.

In World War II we utterly destroyed our adversaries' fighting capacity and forced them to capitulate on terms we dictated.

Another friend, Lev Lebedinsky, suggests that low-level functionaries simply wanted it to advance their careers, and forced Shostakovich to capitulate under the influence of alcohol.

The case of Trafigura, which was forced eventually to capitulate in the face of widespread opposition including the naming of the existence of the injunction in parliament, and the case of the footballer John Terry, made lawyers change their tactics.