Sentence examples for point of surrender from inspiring English sources

Carolyn Christhe-Bakargiev, the curator of Ms. Cardiff's P.S. 1 show, described the voice as a "point of surrender" bordering on an almost embarrassing level of intimacy between viewer and artist.

It was bombed to the point of surrender in a blaze of shrapnel, which destroyed more of the city than any other war has subsequently achieved.

Near the point of surrender, Hutchinson described how they were "agreeably surprised by seeing a wall of rock about fifty or sixty feet [fifteen to eighteen metres] high, which stretched across the ravine, and from the top of it leapt the brook which had so long been [their] companion".

The bridge was reached and the remaining fifty German defenders in the building in front of it were on the point of surrender when after hours of fighting the attack was abandoned because of heavy flanking fire from the other side of the river.

Đujić's detachments in Dalmatia and western Bosnia were used by the Italians almost up to the point of their surrender.

"I think that at some level I had to get broken to the point of complete surrender, where I could no longer depend on myself or anyone else and I only had one place to turn to, and I cried out to God for help," Stapp said.

It requires a degree of surrender.

Nor would it require the degradation of Taliban capacities to the point of near-surrender, a prospect that is by no means immediate.

"There is venality in abundance here," he writes at one point, "and the general air of surrender, of helplessness, is the most heart-breaking thing about it.

Had Carillon also fallen in 1758, the conquest might have been completed in 1758 or 1759; as it happened, Montreal (the last point of resistance) did not surrender until 1760, with campaigns launched from Fort Oswego, Quebec, and Carillon, which was captured and renamed Ticonderoga in 1759 by forces under the command of Jeffrey Amherst, the victor at Louisbourg.

The low point of this encounter was surrendering her serve in the opening game and never really looking capable of retrieving the break.