Sentence examples for preferred to surrender from inspiring English sources

Other sides in a similar position – Brazil against England in the 2002 World Cup, for instance, or Liverpool in the away leg of their Champions League quarter final against Juventus in 2005 – may have defended their advantage by holding possession; Inter preferred to surrender possession and hold a position just outside their own box.

Its commander preferred to surrender to Géza instead of the king and the Byzantine envoys who arrived in the Hungarian camp after the fall of Belgrade only negotiated with Géza.

The Mongols also took advantage of lingering Liao resentment against the Jin; the Khitan defenders of the garrisons along the Jin walls, such as those in Gubeikou, often preferred to surrender to the Mongols rather than fight them.

They would prefer to surrender their own agency to an Agency.

He therefore arranged for Drury and his men to enter the castle on 28 May, preferring to surrender to the English rather than the Regent Morton.

Tepić was considered a hero in Serbia because he preferred to die rather than surrender.

Strand had little interest in color, and preferred to work in large formats rather than surrender to the cramped constraints of thirty-five millimetres.

Whatever the reason that Fassel preferred to keep to himself after yesterday's loss, he surrendered.

She replied, "You demand my surrender as though you were not aware that Cleopatra preferred to die a queen rather than remain alive".

Memorials preferred to NYU School of Law.

He said he knows al-Saadi's whereabouts, but prefers to negotiate a surrender.