For those informants committed to religion, purity of thought and of intent was integral to their discussion of its transforming impact, often defined in terms of the surrender of sexual desire consistent with popular expectation: You need to be pure when going to the pagoda.
It is rare but not impossible to think of a fashion event in terms of morality and a surrendering of self-respect; this was one of those times.
Abortion is the only issue that isn't a complete loser for social conservatives, so culture-war Republicans are starting to think in terms of negotiating a conditional surrender.
"To be loyal to Judaism means to affirm it even at the price of suffering," Heschel wrote; and, as Jews, he said, "we have to face our existence in terms of sharp alternatives: we either surrender to the might and threat of evil or persist in the earnestness of our existence".
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.
But in terms of the war against AIDS, it means surrender.
mortar cannonball, on a stand, with a hollowed out shaft, like the thumbhole in a bowling ball, where James the II (the converted Roman Catholic monarch who abdicated the throne to his Protestant son-in-law) inserted his message containing terms of surrender, which he shot across the river and over the walls.
On 12 September, Middleton sent a letter to Ramcke offering him an opportunity to stop the bloodshed, and to surrender the city in a humane and reasonable way, with terms of surrender spelled out in the letter.
In victory, the indigenous forces, unpolished but seasoned by a generation of upheaval, acted in ways unfamiliar to the American commanders: first mounting cavalry charges into the teeth of tanks, then negotiating terms of surrender in which some went home with their firearms and others entered prison only to rebel in a suicidal last stand.
