Sentence examples similar to resist capitulation from inspiring English sources
The Met made a public-relations virtue of legal necessity over the return of the Euphronios krater: in its 2006 annual report, an introductory letter signed by Philippe de Montebello, the Met's director, speaks of the "leadership position" the museum had taken in crafting an agreement with Italy, as if the relinquishing of the vase were a triumph rather than a much resisted capitulation.
They are unable to resist the immediate urge to perform a compulsion, even though the consequences of capitulation are in the long run often worse than the typically transient experience of anxiety (2).
But if the presidential campaign is any indication, rather than forcing a capitulation, the sanctions seem only to have stiffened Iran's will to resist.
On the matter of South Africa's prior capitulation, here is a paragraph so lovely from Rob Marriot that I'm going to resist my interventionist subediting training and run it in its entirety.
Iraq had resisted UN inspections for three and a half years, but now it felt the screw turning, and appeared to be on the point of capitulation.
