Word: succumbing
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...Commissioner was the state's top cop - Oct. 10 couldn't have come sooner. After being fired in early July from his position by Governor Sarah Palin, Monegan quickly asserted that the reasons for his firing were unethical and unjustified. He maintained he was dismissed because he refused to succumb to pressure from the Palin administration to fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was at that time going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann. Monegan claimed the governor's office had contacted him more than two dozen times pressuring...
...captain lost in straight sets, 7-6, 6-2. Across the brackets, sophomore Samantha Rosekrans bounced back from an early loss to win the consolation round of her bracket with back-to-back wins. Freshman Holly Cao won her first match in three sets, although she, too, would later succumb to injury. In the doubles, Harvard enjoyed mixed success. Freshman Caroline Davis and Peterzan lost their first two matches, although the duo rebounded with an 8-3 win against Colombia. Freshman Samantha Gridley and Rosekrans also recorded victories. With an experimental doubles lineup, however, the Crimson took some time...
...however, that we're all responsible for our own choices. but if women were constantly throwing themselves at you, and your libido was stronger than normal people and biologically it was hard for you to control your impulses, would you be perfect, or would you succumb? Statistically, most men would fail...
...means banks are less vulnerable to runs by depositors than they once were. Finally, the possibility still exists (though the odds are slimmer than they were a year ago) that the Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds could step in to recapitalize U.S. and European banks before they succumb to another great contraction...
...Stable Boy stifled his boredom. It was the fifth modeling he had done since the Viscount and Viscounta wess had left for Italy, leaving him in a rage of frustration and financial desperation. In order to pay his room and board at the inn, he had been forced to succumb to the inept fumblings of pallid, emaciated men in too-tight breeches, all calling themselves “artists.” Invariably these artists found reasons to constantly touch him, rearranging that arm, this hand, that burnished curl. This, The Stable Boy knew, would be the last time...