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) Even Fulham, the city's latest Premiership recruit, with a ground capacity of just 17,000, refuse to succumb to an inferiority complex.Glasgow Herald (2001)
I cannot feel my feet, and gradually my legs and my body succumb to the creeping numbness.Harris, Elizabeth Time of the Wolf
Ideally, the so-called "moderate" Taliban should succumb to the lure of Pakistan and defect to the winning side.India Today (2001)
Many fear governments may succumb to pressures to nationalize pharmaceutical operations within their borders to protect their own citizens.canada.com (2004)
She felt the vertiginous pull, as familiar to her as the desire to succumb to momentary madness and to make the leap herself.Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
The PM's refusal to succumb to complacency ranks with his most valuable professional virtues.The Mercury, Sunday Tasmanian (2005)
The craving I'm going on about now which I still succumb to is - the Mars bar habit.Belfast Telegraph (2005)
Traditional Christian theodicies are still strongly defended in many quarters; faith does not necessarily succumb to pressure.Arthur Berger & Joyce Berger Reincarnation - Fact or Fable?
rst intelligent man I've known to succumb to an unreasoning appetite for games of chance.Robin Hobb THE GOLDEN FOOL: Book Two of the Tawny Man (2002)
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