But American culture holds that public figures surrender much of their privacy, and no one is forced to run for office.
Now in the age of the "war on terror" and the Internet, we face another crisis: our rights are battered not just by government but by private interests as well, private interests to which we have surrendered much of our privacy in exchange for convenient services.
Brown thus surrendered much of his power.
Now, however, I surrender much more to God.
"We have surrendered and are surrendering so much for convenience, for free," he added.
How many will consider these prompts worth surrendering so much privacy for?
His presence was too much for a Valencia team that surrendered to him, 3-0.
So much for the old American canard about cheese-eating surrender monkeys.Mr Sarkozy did not act alone, of course.
Republicans actually seem to think it's not that bad a plan (so much for all that "waving the white flag of surrender" nonsense, eh?).
This combined attack was too much for the Armenians, who were crushed in October and November 1920; they surrendered early in November.
