Films that cater to what's comfortable and capitulates to the most unimaginative fans?
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Each time a manufacturing company capitulates to Trump's pressure campaign, it reinforces a norm against outsourcing.
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The US and Turkey had negotiated a temporary cease-fire in the region, which essentially capitulates to Turkey.
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Yet in the conclusion of "Leonardo da Vinci," Isaacson capitulates to the easy seductions of TED-ism, and boy is it disappointing.
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"The age of shame is over when a president of the United States capitulates to the president of Russia and adopts his point of view on Afghanistan?" he asked.
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Any party to the deal can go directly to the United Nations Security Council to request the re-imposition of United Nations sanctions, but no one is expected to do that, unless Mr. Johnson unexpectedly capitulates to Washington.
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Both a tragic mulatto and tragically queer, Quey briefly considers an invitation to visit Cudjo's village — even fantasizes about living in his compound like a wife — but ultimately capitulates to the white, patriarchal role his father has marked for him: slaver.
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But I remember watching that famous Cabinet meeting where Trump just goes around the table while each member of the Cabinet showers him with ridiculous praise, and all I could think about was the committee meeting in the film where every vote is unanimous because everyone capitulates to whatever they think they have to capitulate to.
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Though Trump has hailed the cease-fire agreement as a victory, it actually capitulates to Turkey's demands in exchange for virtually nothing for the US.The cease-fire has seen Kurdish units withdraw from the Syria-Turkey border, which is allowing Turkey to consolidate its control in the region and rid the area of Kurds — exactly what Erdogan wanted in the first place.
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A man telling a woman to smile — and in Captain Marvel's case, digitally altering a woman's face to smile — capitulates to the crooked idea that it's not up to women to decide when to smile, that a woman appearing to be happy and pleasant is more important than how she might actually feel, that women owe it to others to perform a certain emotion whether it's sincere or not.
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Tyrion rules Meereen while Daenerys is held captive by the Dothraki. At King's Landing, Margaery capitulates to the High Sparrow, who becomes more powerful by influencing King Tommen. But on the day of Cersei's trial, Cersei destroys the Great Sept with wildfire, killing the Sparrows, her uncle, and the Tyrells. Tommen commits suicide, and Cersei is crowned Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
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Hareem goes to Sadia's room, where the sisters reminisce about music and dancing, and they start to regain their former bonds. However, when Nighat asks Sadia and Nadia to expose Hareem, Hareem overhears her and becomes distant, and the family capitulates to her wishes. Hareem is engaged to Fahad before many people, but her friend Areeba ominously asks Fahad about his previous engagement to Areesha.
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Shaddam wages war on the all-important planet Arrakis, believing he has found a replacement for its essential export, melange. The Spacing Guild—having found the replacement chemical to be fatal to its Navigators—strands Shaddam on Arrakis, and he capitulates to the Landsraad. Leto plays a role in forcing Shaddam to sign humiliating peace accords, confirming his status as the emperor's leading rival, and setting up the events of Dune.
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Reluctantly but dutifully, Theodosia capitulates to her father's wishes and marries Joseph Alston in February 1801. The couple then settle in Joseph's home state of South Carolina, and Theodosia soon gives birth to her first and only child. However Theodosia is never happy in the South and constantly longs for the company of her father (and a reunification with Meriwether Lewis). The story moves on through Aaron Burr's time as Vice President: his controversial actions dueling Alexander Hamilton; his working to take over Mexico, naming himself as king; and his subsequent trial.
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When she capitulates to him he looks over and happens to see that she's wearing a necklace that reminds him of his family crest. When she claims that it belonged to her mother he persists in trying to talk about it but she laughing blows off the conversation. At the party Casey and Michael are having a great time but that is soon stopped by a confrontation with his father who accuses her of being a con artist and tells his son about her trip to his office. Michael, who has a deep fear of being taken in by a woman, immediately lays into her.
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During the opening of a British army regimental museum, one person present mentally speculates on what might have happened had past events taken a different course. This alternative history follows the life of George Grant (Michael Caine), a young army officer, as Britain capitulates to Germany in 1940 to avoid bombing. There follows a Nazi-directed reorganisation of Britain's domestic and foreign policy, a brutal reconquest of India, and a gradual complicity in racial atrocities and the building of a Channel tunnel using slave labour. Remaining a professional soldier, Grant gradually but inevitably compromises himself under the new regime, via three tests of his humanity, after accepting a posting connected to building a road from India to the Russian frontier.
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From Puerto Rico he returns to Venezuela between 1827 and 1829 and organized a guerrilla with the title of commanding general of the royalist troops Costa Firme. With little or no support from the Spanish fleet of Caribbean of Angel Laborde, ruled by Miguel de la Torre in Puerto Rico, finally on August 18, 1829, without any hope of success, and after spending many hardships, Joseph Arizabalo capitulates to republican General Lorenzo Bustillos, being reshipped in La Guaira. A royalist guerrillas continue to fight in front of the indigenous leader José Dionisio Cisneros, who since 1821 had separated from the regular troops, and fought until capitulation to Paez in the year 1831. Bolivar died at 1830 and Fernando VII die in 1833 ending all projects of Spanish reconquest.
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