What with President Obama's re-election, the Puerto Rican plebiscite favoring statehood, and the calls by some Republican lawmakers, opinion leaders, and op-ed and radio and TV blowhards urging the party to surrender, already, on immigration reform, these are dark days for people who want to keep the white in the red, white and blue.
I wouldn't go as far as surrender already and turn into a structural Tesla bear.
It was argued in October, 1944, and decided in December of that year — a time when America's victory in the war in the Pacific, if not the date of Japan's surrender, was already a foregone conclusion.
It was argued in October, 1944, and decided in December of that year a time when America's victory in the war in the Pacific, if not the date of Japan's surrender, was already a foregone conclusion.
Ben Arnold 8pm, ITV Let the kids stay up late and, if you haven't already, surrender to the joyous light entertainment of the mighty BGT.
The author of a new book prophetically called The Fall of the House of Paisley might agree that this dynasty, founded on the twin stones of fundamentalist Protestantism and "no surrender" unionism, is already slouching off the public stage.
And how, skeptics wonder, can a "fully autonomous weapon" be taught to recognize soldiers attempting to surrender or those already wounded and no longer a threat?
Three other British ships failed to respond to the signal from Howe, including HMS Alfred which engaged the French line at extreme range without noticeable effect, and Captain Charles Cotton in HMS Majestic who likewise did little until the action was decided, at which point he took the surrender of several already shattered French ships.
Barrett knew that an attack on Fort Brown was in violation of orders from headquarters, since the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia already surrendered by Lee at Appomattox on April 9 and many other Confederate forces had surrendered or disbanded by then.
Three minutes into my self-surrender, and I already felt beaten and humiliated.
And what little memory we had not already surrendered to Gutenberg we have relinquished to Google.
