The second involved the near capitulation by Ian MacGregor, the coal board chief, to everything Scargill wanted three weeks before the dispute collapsed.
Weld describes the near-total capitulation of the Republicans as "the silence of the lambs".
The conclusion saw near-total capitulation by Republicans, who demonstrated, in the opinion of conservative columnist Ross Douthat, that they "shouldn't be trusted with the management of a banana stand, let alone the House of Representatives".
After this latest agreement was finally struck on Sunday night — amounting to a near-complete capitulation by Obama — Tea Party members went on Fox News to complain that it only called for $2.4 trillion in cuts, instead of $4 trillion.
Late in 1915, as evidence of his errors mounted inexorably, Einstein was driven to near despair and ultimately capitulation.
Still, none of the more than half-dozen Progressive Caucus leaders were among the seven caucus members who voted against the New Year's Day fiscal deal - and more serious capitulation may soon be on the near horizon.
Older evangelical traditionalists like Prof. David Wells of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston argue that the newer approaches represent a "capitulation" to the broader culture — similar to the capitulation that in his view led the mainline churches into decline.
This led to a conflict of authority in which Frémont involved himself after accepting California's capitulation from Mexican officials at Cahuenga Pass, near Los Angeles.
As it turned out, the capitulation also allowed Caterpillar to avoid the near-death experience of the Big Three automakers, which accepted the UAW's overly generous contracts for another decade.
Today the brilliance with which he achieved the near impossible is forgotten, while the unfair presumption of his racial capitulation is ubiquitous.
To some, signs of capitulation can be read as an indicator that the bottom may be near.
