Sentence examples for policy of surrender from inspiring English sources

This has been called the policy of surrender and regrant.

It's a policy of surrender rather than one of control.

Soros said international public opinion could affect the behaviour of the Assad regime, which he accused of pursuing a policy of "surrender or starve".

Menacingly, in Scotland and Ireland (as a prelude, many assumed, to actions to come in England) he tried to renegotiate by a policy of surrender the terms on which all former monastic and cathedral lands were held.

Nor really was the allied policy of unconditional surrender.

Rather, President Bush should now set forth a policy of "universal surrender": all of Al Qaeda or none.

LONDON — The allies' policy of "No surrender" has had its effect upon the Turks and there was a distinctly easier feeling last evening [Jan . 15.

First, Roosevelt, at Casablanca, decided that America would pursue a policy of "unconditional surrender" against Germany and Japan — a declaration, Carroll writes, of "a readiness to embark, if a stubborn enemy so invited it, on a program of total destruction".

Taylor stresses two completely counterproductive messages sent by the Allies: the policy of unconditional surrender, and especially the draconian Morgenthau Plan advanced by the American Treasury secretary, which called for the destruction of Germany's industrial base and the pastoralization of the country.

Both the announcement and the policy of unconditional surrender were severely criticized after the war, when it was contended that opposition groups in Germany might have overthrown Adolf Hitler and negotiated an earlier peace if the German military had not been alarmed and galvanized by the prospect of Allied vindictiveness.

The government appears to be implementing a policy of "starve or surrender".