Sentence examples for great surrender from inspiring English sources

In it children talk of the Garden of Eden, and of "Eve's great surrender", but Dickinson's music will be "different", sort of a "Translation" of all that.

The four "great" powers surrendered the very idea in advance, without discussion.

Later that day Buckner and Grant met at the Dover Hotel to plan the details of what was, to that point, the greatest military surrender in American history: More than 12,000 Confederate soldiers were to stack their guns on the banks of the Cumberland and board boats headed for Northern prisons.

That gives me a great deal of surrender".

Take his great work The Surrender Of Breda, a victory won by the Count-Duke of Olivares in the Netherlands.

In his latest statement, he again lashed out at the governing party, saying: "Nearly 20 years into our democracy the graciousness and magnanimity that characterised our political firmament have to a great extent been surrendered at the altar of power and wealth.

In just 17 days and only 109 miles apart, two great Confederate armies surrendered and the fighting stopped.

The New Zealanders penetrated the outer trenches behind the creeping barrage, which slowed to 100 yards in 11 minutes; the German garrison defended the village with great determination, before surrendering when the commandant was captured.

His brother Thomas remains the company's chief executive, but was forced to surrender a great deal of autonomy and effectively reverse a big part of his expansionist strategy.

They were unwilling to surrender their great room, which flows into their living room.

By the time of the Japanese surrender, the Great Depression was over and America had been transformed.