Sentence examples for surrender of a large from inspiring English sources

After the surrender of a large Boer army at Paardeberg and the fall of Pretoria, Botha organized a guerrilla campaign, but Britain eventually forced him to negotiate.

Without emergency measures, N.Y.C. would have to default on its obligations for the first time in history Gov. Carey proposed a partial-receivership plan which would require the surrender of a large measure of local financial control to Municipal Assistance Corp. ("Big Mac"), a new state agency.

What was lost by the surrender of a large part of Jewish ritual law, with its stress on purity, was compensated by the triumph of monotheism over Greco-Roman polytheism and the transformation of ethical and spiritual ideas in the Greco-Roman world.

The light-horsemen had taken the surrender of a large Turkish force, part of the Turkish Fourth Army, then had to defend them from the Arab tribesmen.

At around 08 00, it received the surrender of a large German-Italian camp, and by 10 15 Bir Wair and Musaid had been taken in the face of limited opposition.

An example of their ferocity was the surrender of a surprisingly large number of these fighters at the Qala Jangi fortress, where hundreds of people had died, including an American intelligence official, during a revolt by Taliban prisoners.

Her last captain, Lord Cochrane, forced the surrender of a much larger Spanish warship, the Gamo.

By the Treaty of Moscow of March 12 , 1940 Finland surrendered a large area of southeastern Finland, including the city of Viipuri (renamed Vyborg), and leased the peninsula of Hanko to the Soviet Union for 30 years.

In her scheme, it turns out, a woman doesn't surrender as part of a larger commitment of faith; she surrenders in order to get what she wants.

They are willing to take their chances of discovery by the IRS, rather than surrender a large portion of their millions.

After years of prodding, the Post Office this week agreed to surrender a large part of its facility for - guess what - a new, and newly grandiose Pennsylvania Station.