Sentences with phrase «white flag of surrender»

Suffice it to say, traditional milk will be waving it's white flag of surrender soon.

Wal - Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) is certainly not waving the white flag of surrender.

The worst of the butchery happened after the surviving settlers waved a white flag of surrender, and then were executed at close range after the false truce.

7 matches into the season and many are throwin up the white flag of surrender / defeat.

Anyone who pursued that negotiating tactic would be «waving the white flag of surrender».

How do you know when to keep on keepin» on, or wave the white flag of surrender?

Is your old raincoat waving a white flag of surrender?

There are many afternoons I raise my white flag of surrender and spend the afternoon reading books or doing craft projects with the kids in our apartment merely to avoid this imminent struggle.

A quick search of Wikipedia reveals several uses of black flags, but the most interesting is: «The Black Flag was flown by certain irregular Confederate Army units in the American Civil War of 1861 - 1865 to symbolize that they would neither give, nor accept quarter; symbolizing the opposite of the white flag of surrender.»

He then suggested I was carrying around a white flag of surrender, and I rejoined that I never enlisted in the war for «purity» as defined by the world as it was in 1492, that rather I fought for Nature as a dynamic and mutable thing.

As a caveat, he notes, «I just urge all alienated parents and relatives, and all therapists who work with these families, not to wave the white flag of surrender too soon.»