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  • noun Plural form of capitulation.

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Examples

  • During the 18th and 19th centuries, Russia, Belgium, Greece, and the United States also obtained capitulations from the Ottomans.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • In the Middle Ages it protected them by force of arms; but since the sixteenth centuries, by treaties called capitulations, the first of which was drawn up in 1535.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Government, upon "capitulations" of which chance has preserved the record in his own handwriting.

    Daniel Defoe William Minto 1869

  • When charged afterwards with having written by Harley's instructions, he denied this, but admitted the existence of certain "capitulations," in which he stipulated for liberty to write according to his own judgment, guided only by a sense of gratitude to his benefactor.

    Daniel Defoe William Minto 1869

  • Foreigners had secured many privileges or "capitulations" that they could not be brought under local jurisdiction, but were subject only to the codes of justice of their own countries, administered through their own consular courts.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

  • They were known as "capitulations" and "unequal treaties," and as these names suggest, they were not welcomed by the nations involved.

    unknown title 2009

  • They were known as "capitulations" and "unequal treaties," and as these names suggest, they were not welcomed by the nations involved.

    unknown title 2009

  • "capitulations", or ante-election agreements binding on the new pope; it is also forbidden to cardinals to treat of the papal succession among themselves during the pope's lifetime; the pope may, however, treat of the matter with the cardinals.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • The capitulations of Trias and Aguinaldo and the collapse of most of the resistance north of Manila by spring 1901 left Malvar little chance of success.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • And while Cole and others like him might wish that progressives banded together to cheer along bullshit negotiations with Snowe and Enzi and repeated capitulations to an irrelevant minority and its corporatist allies in the Democratic Party, ...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Comment Of The Day 2010

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