Sentence examples for was prepared to surrender from inspiring English sources

"He said that he was prepared to surrender rights to the mother, but not to a stranger," she said.

Rodriguez was prepared to surrender $28 million to restructure his contract, escape his bleak existence with the Texas Rangers and call Boston his baseball home.

Carthage was prepared to surrender, but the terms offered by Rome were too severe, and in 255 Carthage attacked with a new army built around cavalry and elephants and drove the invaders to the sea.

Frederick's first Italian trip thus served chiefly to demonstrate the impossibility of the kind of restoration that Frederick had envisaged in the Treaty of Constance, but that did not mean that he was prepared to surrender the rights of the empire.

Given the tendency of nation-states to overlook alleged war crimes perpetrated by their nationals, the signing and ratification of the I.C.C. accord would send a powerful message to the international community that America was prepared to surrender absolute sovereignty in determining the legality of its actions during war.

Francis, having argued to retain Burgundy without result, was prepared to surrender it to achieve his own release.

He said he was preparing to surrender to The Hague, implying that this was for his own safety, and that he feared people on his own side, Karadzic's people.

A soldier who left his post at Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y., without leave more than a year ago to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was arrested yesterday at a cafe eight miles from the base as he was preparing to surrender, his lawyer said.

Mr. Baryalai said Taliban leaders in Kunduz told him they were prepared to surrender.

The Arab fighters, he insisted, were prepared to surrender, but the Chechens were determined to fight on.

But then, just as I am prepared to surrender to Mr. Reed's insight, I am always stopped by his implicit suggestion: that Atlanta is not really Southern.