Sentence examples for thus surrendering from inspiring English sources

Polk, however, decided to wait and let the enemy make the first move, thus surrendering the initiative.

First, that they should not have been seduced into neglecting their primary business, carmaking, by the easy profits earned from concentrating too much on pick-up trucks and thus surrendering market share to Japanese and European firms when fashion and high gas prices turned against them.Second, that they could and should have addressed their own operational and product-line problems sooner.

On the weekend when Dublin, under massive pressure from its EU partners, finally agreed to apply for an EU/IMF bailout, thus surrendering what many feared was the nation's economic sovereignty, the BBC was reduced to repeating over and over the same images of a lone man shouting and waving his fists outside the gates of the Irish parliament.

In a fuzzy set its frontier is not so well defined, thus surrendering a membership value between 0 and 1.

Successful, he promised safety to Inaros, the leader of the Egyptian revolt, who thus surrendered.

Francis Joseph thus surrendered his domestic prerogatives in Hungary, including his protection of the non-Magyar peoples, in exchange for the maintenance of dynastic prestige abroad.

He was concerned about the ethics of his sociological peers, feeling that they often failed to affirm moral leadership and thus surrendered their social responsibility and allowed special interests, or people lacking qualifications, to assume positions of leadership.

Brown thus surrendered much of his power.

The Patriarch thus surrendered to him.

"As if the cables were strands of thread, and the anchors were not made of iron, thus they surrendered to the force of the air.

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