Sentence examples for we surrender in from inspiring English sources

How much of our freedom must we surrender in the name of preserving it?

They rush back to the table, and we surrender in effect," he said.

"Sadness because we surrendered in a way, and happiness because maybe soldiers will stop getting killed," he said.

Restated in thoroughly secular terms and from our side, the forces we surrender to in our lives make us what we are; we become what we serve; what we sacrifice ourselves to, makes us.

Pretending there aren't problems out there or recording a "We surrender" message in Russian (as one Danish party briefly proposed) isn't an answer.

Gaddafi asks, "Is death a man, and thus to be fought, or a woman to whose tender embrace we must surrender?" In the story, Gaddafi journeys into the desert to flee the mob of Tripoli: a prophecy that would come to life in 2011, when the tide of civil war turned against him and he was forced to gather his bodyguards and drive out to an ending that history had ordained.

During debates on the U.S.A. Patriot Act in 2001, one senator invoked a founding father: "As Ben Franklin once noted, 'if we surrender our liberty in the name of security, we shall have neither".' In fact Franklin's words were more nuanced: "Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety".

When we surrender, love rushes in.

We surrender thought spontaneously in moments of awe or shock.

You could say we surrendered … in the grass.

I'm not sure what remains once we surrender that naïve faith in community or an open-ended "we," when loyalty becomes a test administered only to our newest Americans.