'resign oneself to' is a correct phrase in written English.
It is used to express a feeling of acceptance of something that cannot be changed, even if it may not be what one wants. For example: "I had no choice but to resign myself to the fact that I would have to work overtime."
Everything else one must resign oneself to losing: pictures, clothes, statues, the piano — even the books.
It would be easy to despair, to resign oneself to believing that they are a pusillanimous bunch of stooges driven by a desire to climb the greasy pole.
Given the history of humans in Hawaii, it would be easy to resign oneself to the seeming inevitability of extinction for most indigenous biodiversity.
In other words, how is being "pro-peace" in this case much different in effect from being "pro-Assad" and resigning oneself to the continued slaughter of civilians?
The key to surviving a difficult marriage, she insists, is to see it not as resigning oneself to suffering but as what she calls "surrender".
"Resigning oneself to small is sad," Winston says when he hears of Janey and Ralph's original plan to have a modest wedding.
By resigning oneself to those terms, Faye tells the kind man, one stops being alive; living becomes "merely an act of reading to find out what happens next".
But, as Keller barely pauses to acknowledge, such collective issues break down into millions of complex individual realities — realities that go largely ignored in his Op-Ed, which treats Adams's personal choices as an occasion for moral legislation about the wisdom of resigning oneself to death.
Even those exasperating lists — "Disappeared Clothes (A Familiar Lament)," "This Much I Know" — become a matter of resigning oneself to uncertainty and disintegration (although I remain unconvinced that titling a list "Unfinished Business" actually releases a writer from the obligation of finishing her chapter).
Resigning oneself to meekly accept the teenage hierarchy, labeling oneself to certain levels in the caste system, and allowing one's actions to be dictated by the mold of social conformity are all ways that students subconsciously make the decision to allow the clique system to infect the high school experience.
Acceptance refers to thoughts of accepting what one has experienced and resigning oneself to what has happened.
