Sentence examples for point of capitulation from inspiring English sources
Iraq had resisted UN inspections for three and a half years, but now it felt the screw turning, and appeared to be on the point of capitulation.
There has even been a "war of words" with the Federal Reserve, where the rhetoric is eerily reminiscent of the late 1960s/early 1970s when Johnson and Nixon badgered the Fed to the point of capitulation.
Seeking to inherit an intact town, a 23-point Articles of Capitulation drawn up by a British colonel, Richard Nicolls, offered the Dutch guarantees of religious and other freedoms, provisions that would preserve their customs and contracts, and a pledge that "all public Houses shall continue for the uses, which now they are for," referring to bars.
Moreover, he notes, the "depressed sentiment on the Continent" could mark a turning point, "a crescendo of capitulation out of which important market bottoms are often formed".
England had looked on the brink of capitulation at that point and, afterwards, the striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic joined Hamren in arguing the result was unjust.
The capitulation is a low point of his presidency, exposing the limitlessness of Trump's moral, psychological and geopolitical failings.
Reactions in France veered from celebration to accusations of capitulation.
Ms Le Pen stands ready to pounce on any sign of capitulation.
First, historically, market bottoms do not all have a single moment of capitulation.
Then he headed the embassy that negotiated the terms of capitulation to the Spartans.
