Example sentences for: capitulation

How can you use “capitulation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Washington Post leads with the House GOP's partial capitulation on "patient rights" legislation: In the face of more sweeping legislation sponsored by Democrats, the House leadership reversed position and wrote an alternative bill giving patients the right to sue their HMOs.

  • Since then, as bien-pensant American opinion has embraced the "peace process," Said has bemoaned Arafat's "capitulation" and grown increasingly disgusted with the chairman's dictatorial rule over a few scraps of occupied territory and with Israel's continued expropriation of Palestinian lands.

  • Though the GOP and the administration are quite close on the numbers, those on Newt's right flank are likely to portray any agreement with the president as a capitulation born of weakness.

  • Truth be told, the anti-conglomerate conglomerate seems less vexed by conglomerate meddling in journalism--the Los Angeles Times ' Staples Center scandal, Time 's decision to put Pokémon (a Warner Bros. release) on its cover, and Rupert Murdoch's capitulation to the Chinese, who wanted the BBC off his satellite--than by the ultra-evil the media conglomerates might do in the future.

  • In the Middle East, Iraqi writer Abdelamir al-Rakabi warned in the Pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi that if NATO's airstrikes lead to the capitulation of Milosevic, Iraq should prepare for an all-out Anglo-American drive to topple Saddam Hussein.


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