US authorities have succumbed to the same Japanese like temptations.

Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945.

Another group also succumbed to this delusion.

I had already resigned myself to the fact that I was a girl.

Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces on August 15, 1945.

In 1806, after a siege of a month, Ragusa surrendered to the French.

Instead, America succumbed to the temptation of unilateralism.

On February 25, Beneš, perhaps fearing Soviet intervention, capitulated.

I think the Obama administration has succumbed to political pressure and scare mongering by the big banks.

In late April 637, Jerusalem was officially surrendered to the caliph.

With its food supply cut off, the city soon surrendered.

In August 1945, the Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to the Anglo Dutch forces.

After the disastrous Malayan Campaign, Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942.

A non elected government that capitulated to Hitler offered a parochial, vassal like future.

Unnerved by the wild eyed students, the government faltered, then surrendered.

Following Hitler's suicide and the Battle of Berlin, the German armed forces surrendered on 8 May 1945.

Many of the remaining tribes soon submitted to the Russians, including the Abadzekhs on 20 November 1859.

For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag waving, anthem singing, drum beating patriotism.

I hate the idea that governments have dropped this ball and I can't get used to the idea that somehow we can't get them to do their jobs.

The majority of the Turkish forces in the region either surrendered peacefully to the Greek Army, or fled to the countryside.

The siege lasted throughout the summer, but when the city capitulated in March 1086 only Noto was still under Saracen dominion.

In September 1943 Germany's ally Italy surrendered, and additional German troops were needed to defend against Allied forces in Italy.

It was not the US that was gripped by this wave of racist paranoia, but France, the cradle of liberté, egalité et fraternité.

After 18 months of resistance, Siena surrendered to Spain on 17 April 1555, marking the end of the republic.

Instead of being an international leader in the worldwide war against terrorism, it is sinking into the despair of a perpetual victim.

But this rebalancing, too, has not happened sufficiently, and if the advanced economies succumb to recession, nobody will escape.

Democracy is not the exception, but the rule military regimes have succumbed to the power of the ballot box and guerrilla groups have largely become a relic of the past.

Other countries succumbed to the old orthodoxy pushed by the financial wizards who got us into this mess.

Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered, marking the end of the war on September 2, 1945.

But the cause of nuclear non proliferation is now in deep trouble, as countries are once again tempted to acquire the means of oblivion.

On the contrary, it is precisely the middle class, bought off by promises of ever greater material gains, that hopes to conserve the current political order.

That is the American Dream that Nadya Suleman bought into, and, in their obsession with her, Americans are coming to grips with how seriously they went astray.

When the city surrendered after the siege of Oxford in 1646, Parliamentary leaders ordered the Duke of York to be confined in St. James's Palace.

In 1992, the sirens of Somalia s political collapse lured the US into another civil war to save a country from itself.

Then the Bush administration succumbed to hubris and made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq without broad international support.

The situation remained unchanged until 1710 when Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Russia during the Great Northern War, an action formalised in the Treaty of Nystad (1721).

Six weeks later, France, in the mean time attacked by Italy as well, surrendered to Germany, which then tried unsuccessfully to conquer Britain.

By the end of that year she had succumbed to cancer, and was buried in the Leavitt family plot at Cambridge Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1807 French plans to seize the Danish fleet led to a pre emptive British attack in the second Battle of Copenhagen, resulting in the surrender of the entire Danish navy.

After short but fierce naval and air battles, the British landed on 21 May, and a land campaign followed until the Argentine forces surrendered on 14 June.

Those countries succumbed to the resulting temptation to increase government borrowing, driving the ratio of government debt to GDP to more than 100 in Greece and Italy.

Recent volatility reinforces this temptation. If Asian countries succumb, global imbalances and all their associated problems will return.

But, unsurprisingly, they did not rather, they succumbed to the notion that unprecedentedly high rates of GDP growth were the new normal.

FLORENCE Italy is once again being gulled by the false hope that if it can just fix its institutions, its politics will normalize.

The purpose was to make Wal Mart a better employer, neighbor, and corporate citizen, and Wal Mart eventually capitulated on some of the SEIU s specific demands as well.