Sentence examples for surrender of some from inspiring English sources

Flying a commercial airliner to another country always entails a surrender of some measure of privacy.

He also said he had already negotiated the surrender of some Iraqi units, who would defect in the coming days.

Without fiscal discipline the euro will fail; and without the surrender of some sovereignty to European institutions, fiscal cohesion won't be achieved.

The Irish government's plea to republicans was stark: a firm timetable for scrapping weapons, or lose your political gains.Yet anything short of the actual surrender of some weapons might now be too little to keep the process going.

Indian officials have praised General Musharraf's pledge to reject all forms of terrorism, but have insisted on specific steps, particularly the surrender of some 20 suspected terrorists, before withdrawing their troops from forward positions.

(in the theories of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, and others) an agreement, entered into by individuals, that results in the formation of the state or of organized society, the prime motive being the desire for protection, which entails the surrender of some or all personal liberties.

He could compromise (i.e., surrender) on some of his demands, such as his unrealistic insistence on getting the formal endorsement of every single House Republican faction — thus suggesting that he buckles under pressure.

On 4 September 1216 the king further confiscated lands belonging to other rebels that had been granted to Neville before the surrender of Marlborough; some were re-granted to Neville's brother William.

It was also the location of a surrender of a group of some 160 of Philip's forces who were later sold into slavery.

Historian Lewin Bentham Bowring reports that, "Tipu demanded the surrender of the daughters of some of these Christians in order to have them placed in his seraglio, and that, on the refusal of their parents, the latter had their noses, ears and upper lips cut off, and were paraded through the streets on asses, with their faces towards the tails of the animals".

He said the expectation that there would be some surrender of weapons by now was "completely unambiguous" and that the failure was "deeply disappointing".