Sentence examples for Spectacular defeat from inspiring English sources

Three days later, the putschists suffered a spectacular defeat.

His most spectacular defeat at their hands was pledging a referendum on EU membership.

As a result, the Union suffered a spectacular defeat, with losses of about 5,300, including about 4,300 captured.

That would avoid a repeat of last month's spectacular defeat, in which Parliament roundly rejected a Brexit deal that Mrs. May had brokered with Europe.

David Farber traces the history of modern conservatism from its revolt against New Deal liberalism, to its breathtaking resurgence under Ronald Reagan, to its spectacular defeat with the election of Barack Obama.

Despite Mr Yushchenko's spectacular defeat in the presidential election (he won just 5% of the vote in the first round), his party is now in a position to be kingmaker.

A series of spectacular defeats has seriously eroded its credibility.

But for all their success, Flower's England have always been bad losers, the peaks studded with spectacular defeats, many worse than the one just gone.

As commander in chief, Maliki has ultimate responsibility for Iraq's armed forces and has presided over a series of spectacular defeats at the hands of Isis, starting last July when Abu Ghraib prison on Baghdad's western outskirts was overrun by the extremist group in a raid that freed several hundred convicted terrorists.

Wilson could be effectively flexible in getting things done but would sometimes latch onto a cause with a manic all-or-nothing fervor that led to spectacular defeats.

They have their victories, and some spectacular defeats, and we have ours.