(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.
Subjugate
Definition:
(v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(2) It is very disturbing that today's social customs allow Dr. Cornwell to advise that personal moral values should be subjugated to those of the community.
(3) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
(4) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(5) Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans, and today its 50 million inhabitants jostle for space among the crumbling forts and cemeteries of those who sought to subjugate them in the past.
(6) The judiciary branch, according to these three laws, would become subjugated to the executive,” said Ewa Łętowska, a professor at Poland’s Institute of Legal Sciences and a former judge who served on the country’s constitutional tribunal and the supreme administrative court.
(7) When psychotherapy is viewed as inherently a change-facilitating process, subjugated to and oriented toward such events, the therapist's function is catalytic rather than analytic.
(8) With the Somali women who were the antithesis of the stereotyped, subjugated Muslim female – strong, proud, fighters to the end.
(9) LaPierre says look at the Second Amendment: "They had lived under the tyranny of King George and they wanted to make sure that these people in this new country would never be subjugated to tyranny... Then LaPierre says if there's an earthquake people need guns: "The only way they're going to be able to protect themselves in the cold, in the dark, when they're vulnerable, is with a gun."
(10) And yet the latest criticism from Brussels inspires a rightwing magazine cover showing European leaders wearing Nazi uniform: “Once again they want to subjugate Poland.” The PiS government is “anti-European”.
(11) Although the modern medical culture has originated in the West, it has gradually spread to all parts of the world, subjugating other kinds of medical knowledge and other attitudes to dying and death.
(12) Has the epidemic mass rape in Congo got something to do with the country's own history, the result of many years of subjugation, played back?
(13) It is no more justifiable than saying that the only future which religious Jews - as Jews - can envision is one in which non-Jews live in complete slavery and subjugation: a claim often made by anti-semites based on highly selective passages from the Talmud .
(14) His own daughter, a glamorous lawyer, is certainly no subjugated eastern woman.
(15) They are those who do not want Britain to look after its own economic interests and wants it to be subjugated to them for ever."
(16) And so they came by the thousands from every corner of our country, men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others.
(17) These connections survived Moon's increasingly embarrassing activities – his sermons dwelling on the "sexual organs", his description of American women as descended from prostitutes, family scandals, Rabbinic court condemnation for antisemitism and a vow to "conquer and subjugate the world".
(18) As a fellow Rhodes scholar and an African woman, I frequently get asked why, in the face of Rhodes's bloody and destructive quest to subjugate an entire generation of my people, I would accept money from a trust set up in his name.
(19) During subjugation and inertial feeding the skull remains ventroflexed.
(20) Asked in 2005 to elaborate on the meaning of the band's lyrics, Page replied: "The topics vary from sociological issues, religion, and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to tyranny and hypocrisy that we are subjugated to."