Sentence examples for opted to surrender from inspiring English sources

Confederates were able to kill several in retreat; many others drowned, the rest opted to surrender rather than risk escape.

Instead of continuing the evacuation, von Schwerin opted to surrender the city to Allied forces; however, on 13 September, before he could deliver a letter of capitulation he had written, von Schwerin was ordered to launch a counterattack against American forces penetrating southwest of Aachen, which he did, using elements of his panzergrenadier forces.

At mediation, the birth parents might opt to surrender their rights instead.

He tells of one transferred executive "who ended up owning two homes for more than six months and, finding himself paying two mortgages, opted to move back to his original city, surrendering his new house to the bank".

Most Turks opted to stay.

Washington opted to ignore it.

He opted to go to Naples.

Given his predisposition for violence, his apparent lack of remorse for the pain and suffering he caused, and a troubled family history of suicides and death, it was always thought that Milosevic would go down in a bloodbath in Belgrade or opt to kill himself rather than surrender.

Yet however compelling this may sound, one might like some independent reason to surrender SK, instead of opting for a different response to the reductio.

Such a move could put Britain's opt-out on the negotiating table, with Mr Cameron under pressure to surrender it as part of the new EU deal he is seeking for the UK.

To a man, they opt to stay.