Sentence examples for yield himself from inspiring English sources

His children he himself had delivered into the hands of Ion, one that had been his favourite, but now proved his betrayer, and was the chief cause that forced him (beasts themselves will do so when their young ones are taken) to come and yield himself up to those that had them in their power.

He sums this up with an epigraph from the English philosopher Joseph Glanvill that includes the line: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will".

This essay and two others shed light on Mr. Carver's aesthetics as a fiction writer, and a couple other pieces (most notably an affecting portrait of Mr. Carver's father and a rather churlish reminiscence about the difficulties of being a father and a writer himself) yield some interesting insights into the author's life.

Stevens silently watched himself yield the early lead to Lost Bus, settle in at the frontrunner's flank and surge ahead on the backstretch.

He was also given to homosexual longings, to which it seems he would occasionally yield but could not reconcile himself.

He comes to realize that survival involves knowing when to assert himself and when to hold back, when to take the upper hand and when to yield to a power greater than himself.

Two days after the audio was published, President Trump himself yielded to the pressure, issuing an executive order that committed the federal government, at least in many cases, to keeping families in custody together.

Sam Worthington plays a paraplegic Marine, who visits a dangerous new planet via his avatar, the aforementioned 10-foot, blue version of himself, yielded by cloning and the kind of technology that only exists between Cameron's ears.

But if the mayor does not yield on more cuts, he may find himself boxed into a corner when it comes to trying to get the budget adopted.

And that argument, as Obama himself well knows, can sometimes yield an unexpected winner.

Nevertheless, the film does yield a modicum of compassion for Kyle himself -- spoiler alert -- by showing that soldiers never really leave their jobs after their last tour of duty.