Capitulate in a sentence

It is praiseworthy though that the management of the Nigerian Correctional Service has overtime successfully weathered health storms even when more developed societies capitulate.

Putin’s strategy is to hold tens of millions of people hostage by using food as a weapon of war — both in weakening Ukraine’s shattered economy and threatening the global grain markets — to exact an even higher price for Ukraine’s refusal to capitulate.

But as the cost of living continues to escalate, I may be forced to finally capitulate.

In reply Namibia seemed to be cruising towards victory, needing just 18 off the last 18 balls, but faced an inspiring bowling performance from Mehran Khan (3-7 off four overs) to nearly capitulate at the close.

One by one they step up to the microphone to claim it was cheaper to capitulate to union demands than to put up with the cost of continued disruption.

Amazon initially refused to capitulate to politicians’ requests that it pledge to remain neutral in the event that workers moved towards unionizing or chose to participate in union endeavors.

Johnson won’t want to be seen to capitulate on the level playing field, because it wouldn’t tally with a newly sovereign Britain free to go where it likes on global trade — instead, the U.K. would be a “rule-taker” from Brussels.

Maybe some with a modicum of decency may capitulate under pressure and resign, but it will not be the call from either of the two parties that would make them do it.

More harrowingly, to do otherwise would be to capitulate to and accelerate society’s attempt to persuade you that you are alone, small, isolated, weak, and of diminishing value.

As we can see from the chart, consumer confidence seems to have stagnated, and some early signs that it is ready to capitulate may be evident from the data recorded in the past few months.

If the WTO does not begin to capitulate after 90 days, the U.S. will stop giving special treatment to the so-called developing countries, which include Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

Moreover, the comforting view being bandied about Wall Street that when push-comes-to-shove the Donald will back off and either compromise or capitulate couldn’t be more misleading.

Politics is obviously very different in a one-party state, but the Chinese leadership is not about to capitulate on its core principles of sovereignty and its aspirational mid-century goals of rejuvenation, growth, and development.

She wanted people in the house and her family to capitulate to her black and white worldview along with her beliefs.

So if I capitulate, how good is that for me when I tell everybody to fight for the right of free speech?

There is no evidence that Iran is likely to capitulate to American demands.

This is a shift in US position on the matter, as President Trump and others previously suggested that they were willing to be patient on North Korea, but now Biegun is suggesting there is a tight timetable for North Korea to capitulate.

This wouldn't be happening but for this impulsive decision by the President to capitulate to Erdogan by precipitously withdrawing our forces.

And so, over the last couple of weeks, we have seen the president fire Rex Tillerson and Andrew McCabe, two individuals who simply couldn’t capitulate to the demand that they obey only Trump, rather than the country as well.

But it has been held back by its current nationalist leadership, which at all steps has dragged its feet; it has wavered at all critical junctures, fearful both of Madrid and of the masses, desperately trying to find an honourable way to capitulate.