Sentence examples for surrendered it to from inspiring English sources

Bulgarian capital from 972 to 992, Samuil ruled it from 976 until 1004 when its governor Roman surrendered it to Byzantine Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer in 1004 in exchange of the titles of patrician and strategos.

We passed it around, though the prose was tough going; eventually the anarchists surrendered it to a curious police officer.

Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs.

Going down the backstretch, Figonero took the lead, but surrendered it to T.V. Commer cial on the second turn.

The elder, sent to defend Bristol, surrendered it to Isabella on October 26 and, after summary trial, was hanged the next day.

If I once possessed a sense of direction, I have long surrendered it to the reassuring blue thread of the map on my smartphone.

We didn't surrender it to the Iraqi police.

Julius Caesar wrote in his Commentaries (52 bce) that the inhabitants burned their town rather than surrender it to the Romans.

They did not have a first-round pick, surrendering it to San Diego in the Eli Manning trade last year.

"This our land and we can't surrender it to them under any conditions," Mayor Sbeih said.

A Tory Brexit is not "taking back control", it is surrendering it to the Donald Trumps, the Saudi dictators, the Turkish autocrats, the Israeli hardliners.