Sentence examples for were obliged to surrender from inspiring English sources

Even some banking bosses were obliged to surrender their bonuses occasionally as their share prices crashed.

Several days before an operation, the commandos were obliged to surrender their cell phones, to protect against leaks.

In return for Macedonian assistance, the Achaeans were obliged to surrender the citadel overlooking Corinth to Antigonus.

Some of her crew tried to escape cross-country towards the southern Adriatic coast, but most were obliged to surrender on 14 April.

The smaller of the two groups reached its objective, but the larger group only made it as far as Sarajevo on 14 April before they were obliged to surrender.

The answer, according to the minister at the time, is that there is no obligation for airports to provide drinking water, even though passengers are obliged to surrender their own.

Most exporters are obliged to surrender 40% of their hard-currency earnings.

At that sort of price, RSA would probably be obliged to surrender.

Licinius, defeated first at Adrianople and then in Anatolia, was obliged to surrender and, together with his son, was executed.

The family's objection is a reminder, though, of how completely royals are obliged to surrender their privacy.

A further implication is that the recipients will be obliged to surrender more of their already depleted store of privacy.