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1. Toral, however, staunchly declined to capitulate, but did all in his power to prolong the truce until reinforcements, marching from Manzanillo, should arrive to aid him in repelling the assault he hourly expected, but which Shafter was powerless to carry out
2. On July 10th, Toral, receiving prompt rejection of his offer to capitulate if allowed to march out with full honours of war, requested that cable operators might go to the city, to transmit to Madrid the terms of the surrender demanded
3. What good will the vanishing tricks do? Will you just vanish when the crowds of free men will be running after you, demanding nothing less than your head? Or will you put on another light show like the one around me, hoping that the people you consider animals will be dazed and so sublimed that they’ll beg you for forgiveness for their sins? Tell me, oh Holy Avatar, why should we capitulate without even a fight?”
4. Ursempyre decided he would capitulate; he would accept, but only for a while
5. This could only be happening as a result of the resolve of the president of the United States, and on this particular score Jason gave him (Bush) an A! Kosmo was certain if we pulled out, as the ELPs wished, history would indict those who were willing to sacrifice our brave men and women to a cause they preferred to lose and capitulate to those sworn to destroy us
6. He would then turn north against the forces aligned against us if the loss of their capital was not enough to force them to capitulate
7. The Chancellor and the President did not know that there were only two choices: defeat the rebels or capitulate to them
8. My reputation was legendary and many times the enemy would simply capitulate on seeing my war banner, before any blood was spilled, such was my reputation at the time
9. When they wanted to influence his decisions, all they had to do was to threaten an uprising, and Pilate would speedily capitulate
10. " The non-Christian world will hardly capitulate to a sect-divided Christendom
11. The old boat wanted to capitulate in the face of overwhelming logic, in the face of common sense, and fall back, move back with the mounting current, take its chances in a bid to get back to the open sea intact
12. Where do they get these orang-utans from, and how do they get them to capitulate and go through the training are additional damning details, shouting orang-utan abuse and brutality
13. He will risk war and do everything to win it rather than capitulate to us
14. they also will capitulate, and remove the cruel, and unjust, burdens they have put on our
15. � The idea of going to talk with a confessed mass killer had in fact attracted a strong protest from Kern�s head of security, but Goran Vedak had to capitulate when faced with the stubborn intention of his boss
16. Pacific Fleet was taking place at Hawaii, Japanese troops were already landing on the Malay Peninsula and preparing to advance overland to Singapore, later to capitulate after Japan inflicted on the British army the most humiliating defeat in its history
17. Either launch an immediate counter-attack to regain the reservoirs and the military food depots or capitulate
18. Hitler had always said that Nazi Germany would never capitulate as in 1918
19. It is claimed that air bombardment, sea blockade, and Russian intervention would have forced Japan to capitulate, regardless of atomic bombing
20. ‘’If you persist in trying to defeat militarily the Vietminh, then you could well end up having to capitulate to them once your forces become overwhelmed in a few years, Admiral
21. ‘’So, what is the latest word about the Japanese, Cordell? Have they told us that they were ready to capitulate, like the Germans did yesterday?’’
22. We had already cycled almost a thousand kilometres on the slim chance that Weasel would capitulate and now he had it was by coincidence almost a thousand kilometres by coach back to Istanbul and Turks like to drive suicidally fast, elying more on Allah than caution to arrive at their destination safely
23. Some tend to get competitive, others may capitulate, and some will run away
24. We cannot and should not capitulate (definition, to surrender, especially under agreed condition) Gods truth so that we don’t offend anyone
25. Whatever they wanted of us, we had no choice but to capitulate to
26. capitulate to the created reality that our children must be massively entertained to captivate their attention and learn
27. For even when you Atlas-grab the nazi scepter or capitulate to being owned, you cannot abdicate that choice and its consequences
28. and then systematically to capitulate under teacher pressure by making their own what science
29. Neither of us will capitulate
30. They capitulate and throw in the towel
31. My story is twofold: (1) traders become more cautious (risk averse) ahead of such announcements, justifiably so because these events tend to trigger large market moves and high volatility, and (2) trader response is asymmetric depending on their recent success; traders on the wrong side of the recent trend (“losers”) are more likely to capitulate, thereby accentuating the recent trend in the days before the big event
32. Then he ordered a birthday luncheon for eight guests and gave instructions for tidying the house, and he tried so hard to manage better than she did that before noon he had to capitulate without a trace of embarrassment
33. Something about the look in the eye of that Mississippi-bred oarswoman, who seemed such a force among her fellows, told him that he had better capitulate
1. We’re actually betrothed,” Helez capitulated
2. Every one of those savages was enrolled at once, and received regular pay and rations, and after due warning against looting, the king and his followers were given a place of honour in the ceremonies when Kumassi capitulated
3. A copy of the “Army and Navy Register” of July 23rd was produced, and in English, which three-fourths of the officers there understood, a captain read: “The Cubans insurgents felt, when Santiago capitulated, that they should be privileged to sack the city and gratify their lust for robbery, greed, and generally riotous living
4. It’s in the bedroom upstairs,” Sheena capitulated in a beaten voice
5. Closing my eyes, I tried to pinpoint the exact moment I’d capitulated this time, but for the life of me I couldn’t
6. State governments capitulated about the same time
7. other side would have capitulated before resorting to those
8. Exactly at seven oćlock in the evening, the governor of California capitulated and agreed to set up the referendum within forty eight hours
9. So unnerved was he by this announcement and the huge engagement party her parents had without his knowledge organised, he capitulated and spent the rest of his life in marital disharmony
10. But in the end Gary had capitulated
11. They mocked her, told her to blow her best against their warded gates and when the magicked steel and wood went up in flames, capitulated too late to save the central city
12. It was years after the birth of Joe Billie that Mary Cornflower realized the values of her parents and capitulated to common sense, returning to her birth place with her four year old prodigy
13. When the Marine sided with Saul, the instructor capitulated
14. I gave Cynthia one last warning before she capitulated
15. Jerry capitulated and raised his beer in a toast
16. On 13 November 1918 he was told of the Armistice and twelve days later capitulated to General Edwards at Abercorn
17. lose this rich style of life, the places of worship capitulated,
18. The first steps to prepare for an invasion were taken only after the French capitulated and no definite date could be fixed
19. It is postulated that the Soviet Union would have capitulated if Moscow had fallen
20. Eisenhower decided to move troops on into Taranto as soon as the Italians capitulated
21. With their cities ruined and reduced to rubble, the stench of death everywhere and millions of people helpless and hungry; the Third Reich capitulated
22. Mecca capitulated to Muhammad’s
23. “OK, lead the way” Mark capitulated
24. they refused, but when they heard Tammas was on board, they capitulated
25. capitulated; he employed his diplomatic skills to tactfully encourage even the
26. Highlands Park then capitulated
27. The once proud Zulu Nation duly capitulated to be ruled by Britain from the 4th of July, 1879
28. In June 2013, on the proverbial steps of the courthouse, the department capitulated and offered to release about 12 000 pages in 42 files
29. Within no time at all, our officer, the mayor, Abu Mohammad and the orchard’s owner were all working together to bind the criminals who had by now capitulated and laid down their weapons
30. The docile head capitulated
31. capitulated in a matter of minutes
32. over the French, who capitulated to thenumber of 20,000 (1808)
33. But my health was the main reason why I capitulated to the pressure of the creditors and in the
34. Overpowered and outnumbered, he capitulated and let Brian read from the lower edge of the nightgown
35. In my mind I had already capitulated to my father’s wishes to be one with this woman, but at first it would be difficult for her
36. A small fort or tower which was in the middle of the lagoon under the command of Don Juan Zanoguera, a Valencian gentleman and a famous soldier, capitulated upon terms
37. As the game drew near its end and it became more and more certain that his opponents would be defeated, the joy of the Semi-drunk was unbounded, and he challenged them to make it double or quits - a generous offer which they wisely declined, and shortly afterwards, seeing that their position was hopeless, they capitulated and prepared to pay the penalty of the vanquished
38. continued resisting all efforts to force them to bow down and accept the dictates of Officially, Georgia’s government had never capitulated but it had been a futile fight, an ever-losing fight
39. But the next week she, too, capitulated
40. For when I worried and fretted with Indecision, trembl’d lest I be turn’d out of Doors, no Good came of it—only more Worry and Fretting—but when I pretended to the Courage which I lackt, Coxtart herself capitulated and the other Wenches declar’d me reigning Queen!
41. Our management-visibly in heat-quickly capitulated
42. And, as so often happens with stock market bubbles, just as the last sane investors capitulated and learned to love the stocks with the craziest valuations, along came the reckoning—all the previously gravity-defying stocks came crashing back to earth
43. And as Hastings capitulated, John Carrington followed out a sudden impulse
1. They were not a well-organized people, but they did mount a fairly unified resistance for the better part of a year before capitulating
2. capitulating peace but a peace formed in the strength of
3. Please stop capitulating your truth for that of another
4. Out of fear we worship the security state, capitulating our liberties so that none have the freedom to deviate, dissent or evolve
5. Apathy is a dissociative will exampled by resignation, indifference, a chosen unreflective, even knowningly self-hypocritical surrender to the prevailing norms, the givens of one’s cultural milieu, in an act of capitulating malaise
6. hair-trigger, a suicide or offend dead end, a super hero incognito overcoming the evil self within, or the monster capitulating to obstacles bending them towards retaliation against the thwarting of their unnatural intentions
7. From the existential conflict of naively wanting to will an ideal is culled a capitulating cynicism that abdicates reality for virtuality, where the dream of the ideal has been recreated in the GameWorld of Anime-me-heroes
8. And for the mistake of capitulating to European Capitalists: they were wiped out to the last soul
9. Was I an ally or a foe? Then she let out a capitulating breath and looked right at me
10. Many contrarian investors stumbled for years after 1958, underweighting stocks before capitulating to the new reality that equity yields were going to be lower than bond yields for a very long time but that equity total returns would be higher
11. They did not say anything, but neither one felt capable of capitulating so easily
