The emperor's statement that Japan's suffering was unbearable to him and that he wished for surrender broke the military's opposition and began the process of ending the war in the Pacific.
Having threatened to kill himself and his family rather than go to prison, Mr. Milosevic went comparatively quietly in the end, his surrender broken only by a few gunshots fired wildly by his anguished daughter, Marija.
In "The Yellow Wind," Grossman wrote of his generation, "The surging energy of our adolescent hormones was coupled with the intoxication gripping the entire country; the conquest, the confident penetration of the enemy's land, his complete surrender, breaking the taboo of the border, imperiously striding through the narrow streets of cities until now forbidden".
If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
Stunned, Williams surrendered the break.
Giraldo, 24, could not afford to surrender another early break in the second set, yet he did just that in the very first game.
Williams had chances in the second set too, missing a break-point opportunity to go up 4-2, and then serving three consecutive double-faults after leading the ninth game 40-30 to surrender a crucial break.
When you tell someone to surrender, don't break cover, or they may just turn around and shoot you.
Where the superiority of Williams really told, despite surrendering that early break, was on serve.
But today, Sampras took a 2-0, 40-30 lead in the opening set, but then meekly surrendered his early break by double-faulting and making two unforced forehand errors.
