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.

  • The consensus political spin from newspapers both and domestic : Milosevic's capitulation vindicates President Clinton's bombing-only strategy.

  • Hilton Kramer, for instance, called Avedon's 1994 retrospective at the Whitney (which produced a gorgeous book titled Evidence: 1944-1994 ) "the ultimate capitulation to celebrity, money and fashion at the expense of art."

  • 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.


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