Sentence examples for practice surrender from inspiring English sources

Most people don't get to (or like to) practice surrender very often.

This is done by dint of "royal prerogative" – a slightly slippery notion defined by the constitutional expert Albert Dicey as the rump of the Crown's "original authority" that remains outside Parliament's gift but is in practice surrendered to the Government of the day.

And that, in whatever ways are most personally meaningful to us, we practice surrendering our waking self at bedtime with the humility of a dog.

This is a practice of surrender.

Mr Tyrie added: "If we don't get to the bottom of our complicity in these disgusting practices we surrender the moral high ground.

That's fine in principle but in practice that 'No Surrender' brigade - they sing 'No surrender to the IRA' - often is the England Members Club, as anyone at Hampden Park last year will testify.

The embrace of such a genre as a career-long practice was a surrender to adventure, undertaken with no knowledge of how the story would continue.

Elsewhere what has been presented as a deal has in practice meant the surrender of an opposition area after it has been starved and bombed into submission.Ceasefires can easily go awry.

An arrest warrant was issued yesterday when a Hempstead School Board member, charged with committing insurance fraud in his private dental practice, failed to surrender to the Nassau County district attorney's office, prosecutors said.

Now in this final pose, the one where we practice for our ultimate surrender, Pete is holding my head.

That case continues to ripple through United States-Swiss relations, with Switzerland fumbling for a way to come clean with Washington about past practices without having to surrender its prized banking secrecy.