Sentence examples for offered a surrender from inspiring English sources

Strictly speaking, the prison was not "taken"; the mob surged into its inner courtyard only after the governor, the Marquis de Launay, had offered a surrender.

WASHINGTON — Thirty-two yeafterfter President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that "government is the problem" and 17 years after President Bill Clinton offered a surrender of sorts on that issue by stating that the "era of big government is over," President Obama made a case Tuesday night for closing out the politics of austerity.

As a result the city was offered a surrender on favourable terms and, although the offer was rejected, the Ottomans retreated leading to a peace treaty between Ferdinand and Suleiman.

"As our days become more and more consumed by doing, by distractions and urgency, sleep, waiting for us every night, offers a surrender".

Quoting a line in the book, 'As our days become more and more consumed by doing, by distractions and urgency, sleep, waiting for us every night, offers a surrender.'.

The walled town was besieged by land and sea by a powerful Ottoman army under Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa, who offered an honorable surrender to the defenders.

Enjoying a vast numerical superiority over the Spanish garrison, which was completely isolated and unable to receive support or supplies, Barbarossa offered an honorable surrender to the Spanish.

After the settlement was announced, Checketts displayed optimism but also offered a note of surrender.

The surrender offered a glimpse of what Afghan and American officials hope might one day grow into a larger movement.

Yet he notes that previous Syrian ceasefires have tended to come in two contexts: either regime forces have besieged a rebel district and offered a choice between starvation and surrender, or a halt to fighting has proven tactically useful, allowing the government to redeploy forces elsewhere.In fact, Mr Assad has been doing better lately.

Both offered a kind of relief in surrender.