Sentence examples for refused to capitulate from inspiring English sources

Next, if the employer refused to capitulate, they bombed his trucks".

Not that he turned down the private jets and fancy hotels, but "he refused to capitulate completely".

But Mitt Romney, the party's last nominee for president, has refused to capitulate, speaking forcibly against the billionaire even as he marched to the Republican nomination.

In Book V of the History, Thucydides tersely relates how, after the Melians refused to capitulate to the Athenians' demands, all the Melian men were put to death and all the women and children sold into slavery.

Yes, Russian blood and American money won the war, but the pivotal moment came in 1940 when, thanks mainly to Churchill's obduracy, Britain refused to capitulate or enter negotiations with Germany.

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, both in their 20's and partners in Proenza Schouler, offered a show on Wednesday afternoon that refused to capitulate to outmoded notions of what a woman should look like.

Yet there are some women who refuse to capitulate.

Refusing to capitulate, Mr. Lyman secured the stadium, and the game began as scheduled.

Despite paying lip-service to global security, peace and justice, the west's history is marked by violence against those who refuse to capitulate to it.

"Each establishment did so by misruling and then, when Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin radically shifted the geopolitical rules, by capitulating — or by refusing to capitulate and thus making themselves susceptible to political bank runs".

Johnson – I refuse absolutely to capitulate to the habit of calling him by his first name in print and hereby urge all fellow members of the Society of Columnists and Allied Trades to do the same – has won two successive head-to-head contests against Labour in a city that has been moving leftwards in most other recent elections.