Sentence examples for surrender substantial from inspiring English sources

When new bishops were appointed typically to the sees of deprived conservative incumbents they often had to surrender substantial land holdings to the Crown and were left with a much reduced income.

A profit-driven industry is hardly going to surrender a substantial proportion of what Which?

"So your position is that the public employees must surrender a substantial amount of First Amendment rights to work for the government?" Kennedy answered back.

Of course, the trouble with such loans is that the borrower could end up surrendering a substantial part of any profit if the home appreciates markedly, as has been the case with many New York properties in recent years.

It has also emerged that the club winning the title will give up £315,000 from their prize money which presently stands at £2.7m, with the runners-up also surrendering a substantial sum from the £2.4m currently on offer.

Franz I surrendered not only substantial territory, but declared the end of the Holy Roman Empire to avoid ceding the title to Napoleon.

The 1945 surrender of Germany revealed substantial wartime discoveries and inventions.

Virginia's seating, in the face of this on Governor Battle's statement, represented a substantial Northern surrender in the general pursuit of party harmony.

In its narrowest sense, the capital levy aims at achieving the surrender of a relatively substantial portion of the taxpayers' wealth to enable the government to cope with some nonrecurrent major emergency or to bring about with one stroke a major redistribution of wealth or a major reduction of the note circulation or the national debt.

Not sure I completely agree with Kevin's upbeat assessment... having followed England around Germany in 2006 I'd say there is a still a substantial minority of the No Surrender brigade.

Surrendering their veto over patents would be a substantial loss of sovereignty for the EU's members.