His shot from the right point glanced off the stick of Pittsburgh's Sam Lafferty halfway to the net, and the puck knuckled under Murray.
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Days later, after his own meeting with the NRA, he knuckled under, lost the courage of his convictions and abandoned both the kids and his promise.
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In "Dereliction of Duty," McMaster eviscerated the uniformed military leaders who knuckled under to President Johnson on Vietnam for failing to show the moral courage to stand up to the political leaders.
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Ming Sheng was a son of Ming Yuzhen and succeeded Ming Yuzhen’s crown in 1366, but Ming Sheng knuckled under Ming dynasty's Hongwu Emperor in 1371 and was naturalized in Goryeo leading his 27 family members with his mother named Ms. Peng in the following year. Ming Sheng's descendant was called Seochok Myeong clan. Ming Yuzhen was Seochok Myeong clan’s founder, and Sichuanwas Seochok Myeong clan’s Bon-gwan. Their branch family founded Yeonan Myeong clan and made Yeonan Myeong clan’s Bon-gwan Yonan County.
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'" Walker's pamphlet brought forth strident demands for Texas from pro-slavery expansionists in the South; in the North, it allowed anti-slavery expansionists to embrace Texas without appearing to be aligned with pro-slavery extremists.Freehling, 1991, p. 418: "The Walker thesis transformed sorely pressed Northern Democrats from traitors who knuckled under to the Slavepower into heroes who would diffuse blacks further from the North." His assumptions and analysis "shaped and framed the debates on annexation but his premises went largely unchallenged among the press and public.
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Awaiting them were > a massed body of Municipals, supplemented by a large crowd ... Together, the > mayor's supporters began clubbing and punching the outnumbered Metropolitans > away from the seat of government. ...The Metropolitans gained the day after > the [State-controlled] Seventh Regiment came to its rescue, and the warrant > was served on Wood. This setback for the mayor was followed by another: on > July 2 the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state law. Wood knuckled > under and disbanded the Municipals late in the afternoon of July 3, leaving > the Metropolitans in possession of the field.
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" Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog." On Bones' subsequent death and the discovery of the treasure map, Dr. Livesey throws in his lot with Squire Trelawney's plans to recover Captain J. Flint's famous hoard. The cooler headed of the two, Dr. Livesey suggests discretion in recruiting a crew for the expedition, urging Trelawney to keep the purpose of the Hispaniola's voyage secret.Stevenson, Chapter 6: The Captain's Papers When Hawkins (now serving as cabin boy) discovers the pirates' plot, it is the doctor he seeks out to make his report.
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Richie also commentates for ITV, BBC and Sky. Prize-fighting was long the popular sport of high and low life blackguards, and Birmingham added many a redoubtable name to the long list of famous prize- fighters, whose deeds are recorded in "Fistiana" and other chronicles of the ring. The earliest account of a local prize-fight is of that which took place in October 1782, for 100 guineas a side, between Jemmy Sargent, a professional, and Isaac Perrins, one of the Soho workmen. Jemmy knuckled under after being knocked down thirteen times, in as many rounds, by the knock-kneed hammer man from Soho, whose friends, it is said, won £1,500 in bets through his prowess.
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