Sentence examples for surrender in a from inspiring English sources

He had to hold the fort as it commanded the city and, in British hands, a bombardment would force Cartagena to surrender in a short time.

I had my say on the requisite surrender in a column on a West retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art, in 2008.

He compared the act of surrender in a chapel to what happens to a person when they surrender to the doctor.

So does Brendan Gleeson, reassuring the nation that "we shall never surrender," in a 2009 TV movie about Churchill's vicissitudes of wartime fortune, titled "Into the Storm".

The former N.B.A. player Javaris Crittenton was in police custody after being arrested at a Southern California airport while waiting to board a flight to Atlanta, where his lawyer said he would go to surrender in a murder case.

It was only after the strained tones of Emperor Hirohito confirmed Japan's surrender in a radio broadcast on 15 August 1945 that reconstruction replaced war as the nation's clarion call.

"Plus, you always surrender in an argument with your wife, right?

On the brink of being overrun by Giap's forces, the French commander, Christian de Castries, was forbidden to surrender in an infamous order from his superior, General René Cogny in Hanoi, who told him: "You will fight to the end.

As the action continued, Rous perfidiously feigned a third surrender in an attempt to draw the American schooner within grappling range.

As small ships engaged the batteries on shore, two frigates entered the bay and attacked the disarmed frigates, causing both to surrender in an hour-long engagement.

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surrendered in a formal ceremony aboard the U.S.S.