"He wouldn't surrender just to escape from their hands quickly," she said.
Rather, he said, "the Roman Senate thrust power on Caesar deliberately, with forethought, with surrender, with intent to escape from responsibility".
Wells wrote that New York was the most likely target because "she was too strong to be occupied and too undisciplined and proud to surrender in order to escape destruction".
You have surrendered exorbitant carfare to escape our eyesore airports, then lurched along congested highways, over creaking bridges and into our truck-clotted city streets.
But with hundreds of Taliban either surrendering or trying to escape the city, General Franks said he was considering moving part of the American force to another location in Afghanistan to cut off their retreat.
For Eric Frisby, 28, surrendering was a chance to escape from a self-imposed prison.
By the time he was liberated by American troops in Austria in May 1945, a few days before Germany surrendered, he had tried to escape at least 11 times from P.O.W. camps and a concentration camp and had succeeded twice, only to be recaptured.
The Soviet 3rd and 13th Armies were encircled but, again, did not surrender, and troops were able to escape in small groups, retreating to intermediate defense lines around Poniry and Mtsensk.
Fiyero intervenes and takes Glinda hostage, allowing Elphaba to escape before surrendering himself.
Several members of the Saʿūdī family managed to escape before the surrender; the rest were sent to Egypt to prison.
