Sentence examples for surrendered in the face of from inspiring English sources

It tried the change four years ago but surrendered in the face of verbal boarding parties from nautical traditionalists.

While the Qatari visitors were accompanied by a small Iraqi security force, they apparently surrendered in the face of the overwhelming militant force.

Mr. Obama essentially surrendered in the face of similar tactics at the end of 2010, extending low taxes on the rich for two more years.

In the end, red-shirt protesters, after camping out in the Thai capital for more than two months, surrendered in the face of the overwhelming might of the Thai army (see article).

Apart from some peripheral tinkering to demand more disclosure and consultation with shareholders, Obama and his treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, have surrendered in the face of big banks' perennial threat to up sticks and move to another country.

Similarly, although the civilization gradually surrendered in the face of Roman power and expansion, Etruscan influence on pre-Christian Rome's religion and art was such that, long after all Etruscans had been proclaimed Roman citizens, wealthy families would boast of their Etruscan roots.

More than just the mounting number of defeats, they have been angered by how they have succumbed, developing a reputation around the league for surrendering in the face of the adversity.

Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, said his determination to withhold money from four United Nations peacekeeping missions -- a total of $368 million in State Department funds -- compelled the Clinton administration to alter its foreign policy, which Mr. Gregg called "surrender in the face of criminal violence" in Sierra Leone.

We cannot reasonably expect determined enemies to simply throw their hands up and surrender in the face of superior technology or even a superior military, and they are responding in new ways, such as attacking human UAV controllers or pilots, since it is so difficult to attack the UAVs in flight and potentially devastating to allow those UAVs even to leave the base (MSNBC editors 2010).

Watt's refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds was recognized after the battle by the award of the Victoria Cross.

They provide compelling evidence of a vibrant segment of the Muslim population that is unwilling to surrender in the face of violence and terror.