No Chilean government would dare to surrender territory to Bolivia, at least not without compensation, perhaps in the form of a land swap.
The folk art paintings – King Billy on his charger or the large Red Hand of Ulster – made it clear to anybody entering the precincts that this was No Surrender territory.
Given the fragility of Israel's government, the reluctance of Israelis to surrender territory in exchange for peace with Syria, and Syria's refusal so far to meet Israeli demands that it drop its alliance with Iran and end support for groups such as Hizbullah, a regional deal looks hard to strike in the near future.
Qing officials would rather grant trading rights and surrender territory than stomach the indignity of having foreigners near the Forbidden City, let alone meeting the emperor.So when Chonghou was appointed to the newly created post of superintendent of trade at Tianjin, it was the sort of job no one more dignified would dare touch.
Were US backed groups supposed to surrender territory to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham?
Wu's defection could have meant the loss of the entire western front of the war, but Song loyalists assassinated Wu on March 29 , 1207 before Jin troops could take control of the surrendered territories.
British officials had argued that many of the nearly 300 British soldiers who have been killed in the war died fighting in Helmand, and that giving way to the Marines would amount to surrendering territory that had been won with British lives.
In two campaigns against Babylonia he forced Shamash-mudammiq (c. 930 904) to surrender extensive territories.
In 733 Tiglath-pileser devastated Israel and forced it to surrender large territories.
Eventually, the momentum generated by Mahadaji could not be maintained by his successor, Daulat Rao Sindhia (ruled 1794 1827), who was defeated by the British and forced under the Treaty of Surji-Arjungaon (1803) to surrender his territories both to the north and to the west.
