Solidarity s leader, Lech Wałęsa, did not surrender in prison and retained his national esteem.

So investors must now hope that the latest episode will be forgotten unless and until hope succumbs to market psychology.

Tom never gives up.

Even at the peak of his illness, he never gave up or showed any sign of worry or fear.

No one should be under any illusions.

Not all prisons succumb to these corrosive and polarizing dynamics.

We had over expectations for Mubarak's remaining dignity and ability to see how things are going on around him, we thought he had minimal dignity and wisdom to give in and accept the fact that he cannot stay any longer.

Without these resources, if she has not already succumbed to birthing complications, a woman cannot survive the perils of poverty and hunger and support her child simultaneously.

But no one should have any illusions about US policy.

The day may come when the dollar, too, succumbs to a rival.

Of course, moral clarity may inevitably yield to the fog of war.

Further, any rebel who surrenders would benefit from amnesty extended by the Government.

Yet perhaps one day we Russians will escape our false dreams, and when that day comes, the heroic Solzhenitsyn, the Solzhenitsyn who could never surrender or be corrupted, will be restored to us.

When D. Pedro II, the great great grandfather of the two princes who now advocate restoring Brazil's monarchy, was ousted by republicans in 1889. He did not put up a fight.

I came from the Bronx. I was taught not to be a loser, not to be somebody who just gives up in a fight.

It can reinvigorate the spirit of earlier enlargement rounds, or it can succumb to enlargement fatigue.

It has played this role with Italy and Spain, but it has met stiff opposition internally and may capitulate soon.

While welcoming the anti crisis action plan of the government at that time, the Fund held no illusion that it would be up to the task.

The Cold War was an endurance race between two similarly strong rivals, the weaker of which eventually had to give up.

And, although Abbas might be tempted by cosmetic changes to the status quo, most Palestinians probably would reject them as fraudulent.

But when we fail to give our best, we simply haven't met the test, of giving all and saving none until the game is really won of showing what is meant by grit of playing through when others quit of playing through, not letting up.

And he bore the anguish of the suffering imposed on his family. And yet he neither broke nor surrendered to the rage that would have consumed most people.

Readers in other countries may be tempted to react to this judgment with a dose of schadenfreude, finding more than a little satisfaction in America s difficulties.

The Internet is where some young Muslims succumb to the alluring narrative of Islam constructed by those behind the terror attacks of our age.

For a day, or sometimes only for a few hours, traders succumb to the illusion of stability, fueling a euphoric but ephemeral financial market rally.

Despite the fact that most leading East Asian policymakers were trained in American universities, none were seduced by Reagan s belief that government is the problem.

From a military perspective, the IDF needed a few more days to make the Egyptian Third Army surrender and cut off the Second Army, which would collapse the entire Egyptian military.

In fact, that track should remain open, but no one should be under the illusion that negotiations are somehow the missing piece of the puzzle.

Because Japan is a rich country, some people may be tempted to view it as being in a position to undertake most of the effort to rebuild on its own.

Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

Farmers will not be able to make a profit operating in some country where land is very expensive, and farmers would give up in those countries unless the price of land fell roughly to world levels, though corrections would have to be made for differing labor costs and other factors.

The unforgettable scene of camel and horse riding Mubarak supporters beating tech savvy Egyptian protesters signals that the old order will not yield without a fight.

What you find in the United States is an injury every 20 seconds that's one and a half million every year stroke every 40 seconds, Alzheimer's disease, every 70 seconds somebody succumbs to that.

Little wonder, then, that French president Nicolas Sarkozy succumbed to the allure of protectionism during last year s election campaign, as did both presidential candidates in the United States.

Not coincidentally, mainstream leaders, from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to British Prime Minister David Cameron, have caught up with the current mood by deeming European multiculturalism a failure.

From the late 1980 s until 2000, many observers presented the Party as being on its last legs, certain to succumb to the Leninist extinction that began with communism s collapse in Europe.

Egypt was ruled as a police state, and, with a gigantic and all pervasive security apparatus, the army might be tempted to assume the role of guardian of order and stability if democracy proves too messy.

The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.

Everywhere, incumbent regimes have mounted resistance. The unforgettable scene of camel and horse riding Mubarak supporters beating tech savvy Egyptian protesters signals that the old order will not yield without a fight.

Once again Pope John Paul II has returned to hospital, gravely ill. Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

That is the plot of José Saramago s novel Seeing an anti utopian vision of post political democracies where people are angry, the elite are conspiracy minded and insecure, and social life is paralyzed.

No one should be under any illusions. Even if all of the world s nuclear weapon states embrace the vision of a world free of the threat of nuclear conflict, nuclear weapons will remain with us for two decades at least, and even that would require the most favorable conditions for disarmament.

It is not an eternal law of nature that the dollar shall always be number one. The pound sterling had the top spot in the nineteenth century, only to be surpassed by the dollar in the first half of the twentieth century.

Why didn't you say yes?

Why didn't you say yes?