total surrender

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandsurrender

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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surrender
noun[C or U]
uk
/sərˈen.dər/us
/səˈren.dɚ/
the act of stopping fighting and officially ...
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(Definition oftotalandsurrenderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If it were to be considered closed, we would not be facing an unacceptable compromise buttotalsurrender.
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Whether courageous leaders of such calibre exist, neither seeking nor demandingtotalsurrenderfrom one side or the other, is the acid test.
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This istotalsurrenderto the board of a nationalized industry.
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Must we go on insisting ontotalsurrenderin every way, without any face-saving of which they can take advantage?
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What was once described as "totally incompatible" has now becometotalsurrender.
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I recall what happened towards the end of the last war, before the actualtotalsurrender.
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First, to appeal to public opinion in this way is an act oftotalsurrenderto moral relativism.
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She got her strife all right, leading to hertotalsurrenderto the trades unions!
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There are, on the one hand, those who are fundamentally opposed to any real negotiation, who think, consciously or unconsciously, in terms oftotalsurrender.
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But some of the proposals seem to suggest thetotalsurrenderby one side in order to reach agreement.
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The demand, in fact, is fortotalsurrender, and any demand fortotalsurrendercannot possibly in the circumstances be a step towards the negotiating table.
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That istotalsurrender, you mean?
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Secondly, the very idea of surrender is basically difficult, and to ask fortotalsurrenderis to ask for the impossible.
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Bhakti extends from the simplest expression of devotion to the ego-destroying principle of prapatti, which istotalsurrender.
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They portray with touching specificity what it's like to cravetotalsurrenderto love even after long years of experience have proven the foolhardiness of such blind leaps.
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