Sentence examples for which we surrender from inspiring English sources

None of these quotidian deathtraps asks us to hand over to a pilot, forces us into a moment at which we surrender responsibility to a disembodied voice that reminds us to buckle up.

The Bradshaws' real malaise, which wasn't clear to Cusk yet, is the tyranny of conventional stories: the fates and the characters that we inherit, and to which we surrender our desires, along with our lives in the moment.

Doctrine has its place in religion, politics, science and indeed the workplace, provided it is a tool that we consciously use, rather than something to which we surrender individual conscience, judgment and discretion.

There's an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy power-behind-the-power to which we surrender much of our privacy.

Huay has come to give modest advice on the manner in which we must surrender to death.

She notes our choices on a slip of paper, which we then surrender to her colleague waiting tables.

The fourth revolution, Floridi suggests, is one in which we must surrender our claim to be the universe's sole site of analysis and insight.

Now in the age of the "war on terror" and the Internet, we face another crisis: our rights are battered not just by government but by private interests as well, private interests to which we have surrendered much of our privacy in exchange for convenient services.

Unless you're a supervillain of some kind with all of this stuff already well beyond the blueprint stage, in which case: we surrender.

He said: "Her later remark about there being no such thing as 'society' has been misunderstood, and refers to some impersonal entity to which we are tempted to surrender our independence".

Her later remark about there being no such thing as "society" has been misunderstood and refers in her mind to some impersonal entity to which we are tempted to surrender our independence.