(n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
(n.) To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
(v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal had capitulated and the sense of history repeating itself was overwhelming.
(2) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(3) "Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.
(4) Photograph: Reuters Manchester United 4-0 Arsenal 16 February 2008, fifth round, Old Trafford Many an Arsenal fan looks back at this capitulation as the day that Arsenal’s last convincing title bid fell apart.
(5) Both developments represent a remarkable capitulation for the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who had initially sought to simply extend the Patriot Act provisions, despite overwhelming support in the House of Representatives for the USA Freedom Act.
(6) This performance was arguably more troubling than the infamous late capitulation in May.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Iran nuclear deal is ‘madness’, says Dick Cheney Cheney said the current nuclear agreement with Iran was an “intricately crafted capitulation”.
(8) "There is no talk of capitulation, everybody's really happy," he said.
(9) Cameron's initial U-turn to put Heathrow back in play was a classic of this syndrome, capitulating to the toughest corporate lobby of recent times.
(10) Where the authorities at Wimbledon are to be congratulated on holding out on the white-clothes-only rule, the BBC is to be gently applauded for capitulating to the court of viewer opinion.
(11) There would be no capitulation, no surrender, no private jet into pampered exile.
(12) Ten minutes after they sailed, the radio announced that the Netherlands had capitulated.
(13) They have not capitulated to the pressure; why should they suddenly cap in the last six months of their lives?"
(14) Rio Ferdinand on Manchester United: ‘It’s embarrassing to be in Europa League’ Read more He was not alone, however, in those moments when United’s back four capitulated.
(15) "Debt-to-GDP ratios are already eye-wateringly high, and this week's stunning capitulation in May industrial production data from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands has raised fears that the so-called eurozone recovery has become stuck in quicksand, and without growth to erode the debt levels, the money that has flowed into Europe could well come flooding back out."
(16) But eventually, in October, he capitulated and cut, amongst other things, “the entire secondary wave of head chunks”.
(17) Inspired by the magnificent Ross Barkley, however, there was no late capitulation from Everton this time and they took Stoke’s place in the top half of the table after winning consecutive league games for the first time this season.
(18) Eventually she capitulated and joined Tillman, who described her as the "queen of retail", taking over as chief executive of Jaeger with a 20% stake in the business.
(19) Why would rebels come to hear the terms of their capitulation?
(20) Children and adults with TS experience the intrusion into consciousness of unwanted and disturbing sensations, thoughts and desires; they repeatedly experience the need, arising from an "alien" force within themselves, to produce sounds and actions which they try to resist but to which they eventually capitulate.
Parley
Definition:
(n.) Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.
(v. i.) To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an armistice, or terms of peace.
Example Sentences:
(1) For another $100 he wrote, with his sister Elizabeth, Peter Parley's Universal History on the Basis of Geography, a children's book, which over time sold very well indeed.
(2) It is impossible to parley with al-Qaida, but the west could do much to stem its flow of recruits by engaging more constructively with the Islamic world than George Bush is willing to do.
(3) Kerry, en route to China for a wide-ranging diplomatic parley, called on the Afghan security forces to remain neutral and warned against either candidate using them to his advantage.
(4) He's one of a select band of former criminals ('Mad' Frankie Fraser and Dave Courtney in recent times, George Raft in days gone by) who have parleyed their former notoriety into a lucrative sideline in the entertainment industry.
(5) Health promotion is defined by the following activities: the advocation of healthy behaviors, the continuation of the promotion of such choices or the promotion of changes in unhealthy behavior, the parleying of preventive and curative health services and the acceptance of such facilities and the condoning of activities at a societal level that are supportive of preventative and health choices.
(6) the screen announces, and a chat box appears, inviting me to start up a text conversation with a stranger who has declared me attractive enough to parley with.
(7) Katie Couric and David Pogue Under the chief executive, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo tried to parley its dominance of the old web – chiefly through the millions of users who still have the site set as their homepage – into dominance of old media.
(8) While diplomats parley in New York, the war in Syria continues apace.