It is a way of making peace with or perhaps surrendering to Manhattan.
If they did not go far enough, they risked being steamrolled by more aggressive adversaries and perhaps surrendering a presidency.
Alice and Phil have delegated, or perhaps surrendered, some of the basic chores of life to the computer, an early signal that these Apache helicopter parents have created a somewhat inauthentic life for their children.
"Was he given a load of photographs and he said, 'I want that one?' Or did he just get in there and mix, and I stood out because of the red uniform?" The knowledge that she had been seduced — and, perhaps, surrendered — by script did not relieve her of the insecurities that attend the demise of romantic relationships, particularly those that end in abandonment.
"The Kenyan government either acted on poor advice, showed a lack of ambition in trusting the renewables or perhaps surrendered to other economic interests," Obura said.
Additionally, according to Bede, Oswiu's son Ecgfrith was being held hostage "at the court of Queen Cynwise, in the province of the Mercians" —perhaps surrendered by Oswiu as part of some negotiations or arrangement.
Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism".
Despite all the Pentagon's boasts about the ability to use air power to shock the Iraqi adversary and perhaps encourage surrender, the air defenses in and around Baghdad are still functional, though diminished.
He is laughing more and perhaps even surrendering to his kinder, gentler impulses.
As he talks, his relaxed middle-England accent drops into the occasional actorly "received pronunciation" – a nod to all the period dramas he has worked on, perhaps – before surrendering to that unmistakable Mancunian growl when he's delivering one of Hunt's lines.
A romanticism perhaps best surrendered and with it, a measure of the narcissism and naiveté that never served me well to begin with.
