But even when you're in the process of surrendering on a particular point, it makes a difference how surrender happens, and what — if anything — you can persuade your victorious opponents to concede.
What was left of the French government retreated to Bordeaux and accepted terms of surrender from the Prussians; the terms are always called "humiliating," but all terms of surrender are humiliating — that's what makes it a surrender.
When the sheriff officer felt he had absorbed as much enemy fire as any local government official should be expected to in one day, he made a temporary surrender, saying he was leaving but that he would be back.
Without their embodying the ego of, say, an Ezra Pound, or making a complete surrender to the inner forces of language, it's hard for Hirsch's poems to tell more than the story of a decent poet beating an honorable retreat toward prose.
Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the government had made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".
At an earlier hearing in the High Court, Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the Government made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".
"We can't make it a surrender though," said Saleh Homsi, sipping bitter coffee at a roadside stall.
The G.O.P.'s Garland game plan is, like so many other choices the Party has made, also a surrender to Trumpism, which, after all, is tied to Trump's birtherist notions about Obama's lack of legitimacy as a President.
You made an investment, surrendering your privacy in return for the status boost of being followed by strangers.
At the climax of "Thelma and Louise," when the women are trapped between a phalanx of troopers and an impassable canyon, they must make a choice: either surrender or take their own lives.
