Example sentences for: capitulation

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

  • An op-ed by Indian journalist Sunanda K. Datta-Ray in the International Herald Tribune highlighted India's dilemma: "India has to walk a delicate path between capitulation to the hijackers and appearing callous about the hostages.

  • But in most of the British press, as around the world, the main story Monday was Indonesia's capitulation to international pressure by agreeing to allow a foreign peacekeeping force into East Timor.

  • U.S. officials hate this word because it connotes capitulation.

  • Yet the recent evolution of Hanukkah represents not a capitulation to the forces of Christmas but an assertion of Jewishness amid a multicultural society.

  • The new New York and its new Times Square thus achieved a complete capitulation of the civic to the corporate, and was proud of it.


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