Sentence examples for position of surrender from inspiring English sources

Witnesses say Brown, 18, was shot with his hands in the air in a position of surrender, while police claim officer Darren Wilson shot him during an altercation.

Besiktas fans at the Istanbul match paid tribute to witness accounts that Brown was in a position of surrender at the time he was killed, holding up a sign showing a person with their hands in the air and the quotes "No racism" and "#RIP Mike Brown".

Witnesses have said Mr Brown was shot as he held his hands up in a position of surrender, while the police and supporters of Mr Wilson have said he fired during a fight with Mr Brown.

Khamenei knows that Obama is in a position of surrender, and the president will have no other option than to continue giving in to the Supreme Leader's demands or intentionally refuse to address the real issues until he leaves the White House and delegates the problematic deal to the next U.S. president.

Rows of trenches near a bridge nine miles to the north of Debaltsevo yesterday suggested that Kiev may have a fallback position to surrender the town.

On the nuclear issue he appears less absolutist than his predecessor, though he has said that his position is certainly not one of "surrender" to demands that Iran halt its nuclear program.

Their posture is expressive purely of surrender.

Iran Inc. is in the mood for negotiations, but Khamenei wants them to be conducted from a position of strength and will never surrender the country's right to enrich uranium.

Apparently, since the coalition was announced on Wednesday, the Social Democrats' labor allies have refused to accept one money-saving proposal -- raising the minimum retirement age to 62 -- and the People's Party demanded that the reds surrender the position of finance minister to them so there would be no more $5 billion slip-ups.

Promoted to the position of brigadier, after the German surrender in North Africa Wheeler was sent to Algiers where he was part of the staff committee planning the invasion of Italy.

Alexander probably realised that his position was hopeless and tried to negotiate terms of surrender but James demanded and received his total submission.