The plan is to avoid surrendering a goal while hoping to manufacture one at the other end.

He and 250 of his men managed to avoid surrendering to Grant, and Lyon led them to Jackson, Mississippi, where they joined the Confederate forces there.

Since the troop ship sailed away, many diplomats here have warned that a newly emboldened Haitian military may step up its campaign of violence to avoid surrendering power.

Control pitchers, who succeed by avoiding surrendering walks, are different from power pitchers who succeed by striking out batters and keeping the ball out of play.

But Mr. Miyazawa is in a classic bind, needing to show Japanese voters that he is tending to the relationship with America while avoiding surrendering to their demands.

To avoid surrendering to authorities, she and her family disappeared.

I refuse to give up my self-will to avoid surrendering to a power that is greater than myself.

But you won't be able to avoid surrendering them as you continue south.

When the end of war was clear, he marched towards the U.S. troops in order to avoid surrendering to Soviet forces.

But its director, Breck Eisner, says he took pains to avoid surrendering to them entirely.