Sentence examples for hopeless surrender from inspiring English sources

Further, his satire, as more politically committed critics pointed out, ends up in a kind of hopeless surrender to the values satirized.

And yet the story of this last year and a half has not been a hopeless surrender to limitations, but learning how to cope and get on with life and my passion to write.

The British prepared to launch an assault on the fort, but the French, seeing the situation was hopeless, surrendered.

He may also, in the European gentleman-officer tradition, have been giving Washington an opportunity to conclude his position was hopeless and surrender.

Ordered to reinforce Fort Donelson, Tennessee, he found the military situation hopeless and surrendered unconditionally to General Ulysses S. Grant (Feb. 16, 1862).

Recognising that his situation was hopeless, Lahalle surrendered at 17:20.

The Malagasy could then see the militia on the shore preparing to come to the ship's assistance, and realised that their situation was hopeless; they surrendered and were once again shackled.

Nabis, however, seeing that the situation was hopeless agreed to surrender the city to the Romans.

We then flew to Udaipur in Rajasthan, the state where the maharajas once ruled in unbridled luxury and Rajput warriors fought to the death rather than surrender against hopeless odds.

The best parallel I can imagine is the war, when tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers preferred dying in hopeless circumstances rather than surrendering -- because of the power of shame".

Recognising that further resistance was hopeless, Captain Gaspard Laignel surrendered immediately.