Sentence examples for surrender to old from inspiring English sources

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It is in most respects admirable, even exemplary, particularly in her refusal to surrender to old age.

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During the open-air ceremony, the pontiff made a cautious allusion to regional tension, urging conciliation rather than surrendering to old hatreds.

Adults, meanwhile, can surrender to some old-fashioned melodramatic pleasures, as the busy plot takes in Harriet and Robert's struggles as well as Phiona's.

Would I wait it out until the next hustle came along - or would I finally surrender to a decade old struggle with addiction that had robbed me of everything?

• In fact, the one observation Williams was willing to make about Thomas's Knicks run was his surrendering to an old New York stereotype, chasing splashy players at the expense of establishing a foundation of team character.

But after Lee shows up – pretty much back from the dead – baring his soul about their past deeds together, complementing Arby's new line of work (plumbing: appeals to a meticulous mind), and then slyly blackmailing him into coming back, it looks like Arby is surrendering to his old self, giving up on "Peter/Petrie".

Fashion editors and stylists talk about emphasizing and celebrating curves — and they are always "curves," not potbellies, saddlebags or love handles — as if to suggest that camouflaging them would be a surrender to social oppression and old-school thinking.

Sabally accused the US and Britain of sponsoring a 1995 coup and said the Gambia would not surrender its mineral resources to "old vampires and present-day locusts".

After the outbreak of the civil war of 1341 1347, he tried to surrender Thessalonica to his old friend John Kantakouzenos, but was driven from the city by the Zealots of Thessalonica.

The crimes, and the severity of the nation's drug abuse problem, have so vexed the authorities that they are calling on citizens to surrender old bottles of potent pills like Vicodin, Percocet and Xanax.

Boko Haram militants, some of as young as 12 years old, surrendered to the Chadian army.

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