Yet, in keeping with true Mourinho pragmatism, this was only really about the result in an arena where United had succumbed under Louis van Gaal last season.
Defectors and experts say fishing boats under the command of the Korean People's Army may have succumbed under pressure from Kim to catch more fish, ill-equipped for rough seas.
The French High Command released an assessment of the defeat at Muong Khoua in Communique No. 14, stating "During the night of May 17 to 18, the post of Muong Khoua, which had victoriously resisted since the beginning of the Viet Minh offensive, succumbed under the overwhelming mass of assailants".
I am nothing without them, and without me they would succumb under the weight of their sorrows".
The expectation at the start of the day was that such as Bradley, Dufner and Brendan Steele, who was tied for the lead overnight, would succumb under the unforgiving glare of a major championship Sunday.
The Chinese government has for years talked about freeing up rates to let banks compete for customers without restraint, but it has so far failed to act, in part because of fears that the lenders — bailed out to the tune of 4 trillion renminbi, or $630 billion, in the early 2000s — might succumb under the pressure of free competition.
Singh was imploding, and Nick Watney, a stylish 26-year-old who had seized the lead at seven under and eagled the 12th hole to go to nine under, succumbed to a quadruple bogey at the 16th hole.
In that deal, the seller's shareholders bore the cost of writing down its book value by half — with the result that they succumbed to a "take-under" at a 45 percent discount to the market price of their stock.
Before "Six Feet Under" succumbed to the familiar serious-television malady and became as mired in suds as any daytime soap, with the usual complement of pathologies and predicaments, it created a recognizable, lived-in world that balanced individual concerns against larger social issues.
The operator with the grandiose vision of pairing cities around the globe as destination points, Pan Am, succumbed decades ago under a mountain of debt.
Gaza's port, however, occasionally succumbed to neglect under Arab rule and an overall decline in commerce followed because of infighting among Palestine's rulers and Bedouin bandits who disrupted overland trade routes towards the city.
