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.
"The terrible feature of current demonstrations in the west against nuclear weapons was that the demonstrators were opposed to any defence – they were prepared to surrender," he told her.
"He said that he was prepared to surrender rights to the mother, but not to a stranger," she said.
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.
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.
Harry Manning, the real estate agent handling sales on the Bajan side of the Atlantic, warns that buyers won't make a fortune from renting the properties out unless they are prepared to surrender occupation at peak times to paying guests.
The opening pages of Andrea Levy's fifth novel suggest that when we encourage someone to tell their story, we should be prepared to surrender to their voice, however capricious it may be; the subsequent narrative counters with the idea that this might be easier said than done.
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.
And even if an individual is prepared to surrender all privacy in order to accept a minute reduction in risk of a catastrophic event, what safeguards are in place to prevent even greater catastrophes, in the hands of a state, oft-captured and oft-brutal, knowing and seeing all?
