Sentence examples for surrender of it from inspiring English sources

The Mount had a succession of owners after Wharton's reluctant surrender of it in 1912, in the midst of her separation from Teddy.

In his own words "As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it".

The rationale for sacrifice is that everything belongs to God; the central point in the sacrifice was the sanctification of the offering, and the surrender of it to God.

Have you relaxed in the surrender of knowing it is all perfectly unfolding for you right now as you turn the light off?

And there is no indication he plans to surrender any of it.

That is, provided the developer doesn't have to surrender any of it due to A.I.G.'s foreclosure action.

Though the judge withheld many of the facts from the jury on the grounds they were irrelevant to the case, New York media revelled in the details of his vast wealth, before he was forced to surrender much of it, including nine aircraft, a private Boeing 747 among them.

After the intermission Mr. Maazel led a lush, kinetic account of Roussel's "Bacchus et Ariane" Suite No. 2. And no sooner had he reclaimed the spotlight than he surrendered part of it to Nancy Gustafson, the soprano, for a searing performance of the final scene from Strauss's "Salome".

The government has had to extend its deadline for the surrender of weapons, because it needs more time to deliver the tools, oxen and small loans it has promised to those who have already handed in their guns.

"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals," Hitchens said.

The book is ultimately about the inevitability of change, but it suggests, in the surrender to it, the possibility of grace on the other side.