Sentence examples for surrender it to from inspiring English sources

In the wake of this disaster, the Byzantine position deteriorated rapidly: al-Fadl ibn Ja'far took Leontini by a ruse in 846, and the fortress of Ragusa followed in 848, when its garrison was forced by severe famine to surrender it to the Muslims, who razed it to the ground.

We didn't surrender it to the Iraqi police.

"This our land and we can't surrender it to them under any conditions," Mayor Sbeih said.

Julius Caesar wrote in his Commentaries (52 bce) that the inhabitants burned their town rather than surrender it to the Romans.

Ms. Morrison advised her that she, too, sometimes wanted control of a project beginning to end but had learned to surrender it to benefit from another perspective.

Their history, from which they seek no escape, is written into the ground and they are not inclined to surrender it to a fantasy of ecological throwback.

Bulgarian capital from 972 to 992, Samuil ruled it from 976 until 1004 when its governor Roman surrendered it to Byzantine Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer in 1004 in exchange of the titles of patrician and strategos.

We passed it around, though the prose was tough going; eventually the anarchists surrendered it to a curious police officer.

Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs.

The elder, sent to defend Bristol, surrendered it to Isabella on October 26 and, after summary trial, was hanged the next day.

The United States took over in 1796, surrendered it to the British during the War of 1812, then regained it the following year under Gen. William Henry Harrison.