Sentence examples for surrender like from inspiring English sources

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It feels to them like surrender, like humiliation.

You either surrender, like the little boy in the Warsaw Ghetto photo, or you fight, if necessary to the death.

Speaking of the Taliban prisoners, Mr. Tenet said, "Their pledge of surrender, like so many other pledges from the vicious group they represent, proved worthless".

The "tap out" is how fighters signal their surrender, like chess players knocking over their own kings, and there is no shame in the act.

"To me, this is an agreement of surrender, like Chamberlain," he said, referring to British appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.

But, he said, its soldiers "rely morally and psychologically on something like a truce, like surrender, like destroying the enemy, and in this kind of war you are not really able to measure your success".

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I like to play Surrender and I like to play Story Of LIfe.

And, like Hirohito until Japan's surrender, Kim Jong Il, like his father before him, was not heard speaking by his people in public broadcasts.

Explaining things with, "Well, people are angry!" is like surrender; it's explaining badly resolved story lines in a TV show with, "A wizard did it".

That in itself is an important shift, since the only way that conservative religious attitudes will change is if they stop looking to religious conservatives like surrender.

"But we're not going to surrender just like that.

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