Sentence examples for sought to surrender from inspiring English sources

Protesters have adopted the pose and the slogan "Hands up, don't shoot" in reference to witness accounts that said Brown, 18, sought to surrender before he was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in August.

Rights groups say both Fonseka, the president and other senior officials are all implicated in shooting Tamil Tiger fighters as they sought to surrender and ordering artillery bombardments that killed thousands of civilians in the last weeks of the war.

Rights groups say that Mr Fonseka and President Rajapaksa are implicated in shooting Tamil fighters as they sought to surrender.

Rights groups say that Mr Fonseka and President Rajapaksa are both implicated in shooting Tamil fighters as they sought to surrender.

Barry Bearak (NYT) PHILIPPINES: REBELS SAID TO SEEK SURRENDER Members of a Muslim rebel group holding five hostages, including an American, are seeking to surrender after evading troops for three weeks, military officials said.

Officials in the Central African Republic have been in contact with members of the Lord's Resistance Army who are seeking to surrender, though there is little evidence thus far that Mr. Kony is among them.

Just days after the killing of Muammar al-Gaddafi, the former Libyan ruler, there are unconfirmed reports that his son Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi and his former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi are both seeking to surrender themselves to the international criminal court (ICC), where both are the subject of arrest warrants.

“They sought to persuade Hamm to surrender his gold medal to Yang when there was no reason to do so,” it read.

After two costly and unsuccessful attempts to seize the fort by direct attack, the British changed their approach and sought to force the garrison to surrender by cutting off the fort's external water supply.

Ramon Zagal, a military spokesman, said at the briefing that the rebels would have to surrender if they sought to end the standoff.

Nonetheless, when Hitler's successor, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, sought to open negotiations for a surrender a few days after Hitler's death, he still hoped that a separate surrender to the British and Americans in the west might allow the Reich to rescue something from the Soviets in the east.