A white flag is the universal symbol for truce.
They and their families are reported to have been machinegunned while advancing under a white flag.
Some say this is a race America can't win. They're ready to wave the white flag and declare defeat.
Once ensconced in the Oval Office Obama, invoking “bipartiship”, instantly nailed a white flag to the mast by keeping on Robert Gates, Bush’s secretary of defense.
We are all equipped to deal with a certain level of stress, but at a certain point our bodies throw up the white flag and we're left feeling exhausted and short-tempered.
The soldiers raised a white flag.
Brown sent out one of his men and one of the prisoners with a white flag. The excited crowd refused to recognize the white flag.
So why not wave the white flag and let the parties do what they will?
Take the horse and Zhang, and cover it to the bottom of the city. When the door is opened, the people will carry the white flag.
I give you a white flag.
Certainly no one in Cairo will be flying the green and white flag of their enemy.
The Camel Hill was about 150 miles away from the white flag. Lin Changfeng kept on going all the way until it was light.
Down came the United States flag. And up went the white flag of surrender.
He suggested that Mr Romney favoured a timetable forending the war in Iraqand “waving a white flag of surrender”.
The white flag is a token of surrender.
A white flag signifies surrender.
We wave the "white flag" to call a truce, surrender, or show we are unarmed.
Brown was furious that the crowd outside had refused to honor his white flag of truce earlier in the day. He told Sinn that his men could have killed unarmed men and women, but did not do so.