surrender

" If someone is "ready to surrender," what does that mean?

But paying $16 billion here is pretty much surrender as far as I'm concerned.

Others were only ready to surrender with conditions Z and A.

When I read these revisionist pieces, I often see the same phrase you quoted: "ready to surrender.

" But it is well documented that some were only ready to surrender if conditions X and Y were met.

But I was fairly certain that what I was hearing was a tactical retreat, not a strategic surrender.

Of course reductionism doesn't feel attractive - it requires the surrender of the ego in pursuit of fact.

I'll tell other engineers that two weeks' salary is a piddly amount for the company for you to surrender such rights.

The UK royal house is paid an annuity that was given in exchange for them surrendering the revenues from their private holdings.

C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it.

"C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it.

This is insanity, it is surrender not negotiating.

Just freezing can indicate indicision, panic, or calculated caution just as easily as it can indicate a desire to surrender.

With respect to #1: in countries with a functioning justice system, humane prisons, no death penalty and no insane "three strikes" rules, criminals are more likely to surrender and just accept defeat.

So if you had to kill 1/4 of a ships crew because you're flying a French flag attacking a Spanish vessel for the English, but the vessel you attacked was Dutch and didn't surrender because they're at war with the French.

The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons.

I would like to further suggest we end the use of the word "war" in contexts that do not involve mandatory conscription and the deaths of large numbers of combatants until one side totally surrenders.

The fact that he used his wives as human shields indicated an intent to continue resisting, and he did nothing to adequately indicate that he had changed his mind and wanted instead to surrender.

Is there any reason why a company could not apply the same concept of a warrant canary on a user-by-user basis?Imagine seeing a message every time you log into your Gmail account informing you that Google has never been compelled to surrender your private data to a law enforcement agency.

One of the emperor's advisers even mentioned the 'twin shocks' of Soviet invasion and the atom bombs as being gifts in a sense, as it meant the Emperor could say he was forced to surrender and not that Japan "gave up".So it seems clear that the Soviet invasion was core to the decision-making, but not that it was the only concern, and certainly not that the atom bomb was not factored in at all.

Almost the entire piece does nothing but cite facts, such as: the dropping of the nuclear bombs does not figure significantly in historical records of the Japanese leadership's discussion about surrender; the Japanese war council decided on August 8 not even to discuss the Hiroshima bombing; damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not out of scale with the earlier fire-bombings of other cities; Japanese leaders had expressed a willingness to sacrifice their cities if necessary; Japan's war strategy was predicated on the Soviets staying neutral; and so on.

Surrender requires a deliberate indication of an intent to surrender, such as putting your hands in the air or laying down on the ground.