Sentence examples for a defeat or a from inspiring English sources

Was it a defeat or a victory?

Was this ending a defeat or a moral victory?

Cameron had faced the prospect of a defeat, or a politically damaging narrow victory, when MPs vote on Thursday evening on a motion calling for a proportionate response.

There is little question that the league won the first round of this labor struggle because there did not seem to be any major gaffe that led to a defeat or a devastating injury.

Republicans worry that a defeat or a delay on this signature issue, even though voters are not yet clamoring for tax relief and some prefer using the government's surplus to erase the debt, could cripple Mr. Bush politically.

Between them, in the 6.15 kick-off, second-placed Atlético knew that a win meant fighting another week, keeping them neck and neck in this five-match sprint that had begun 10 days earlier, while a defeat or a draw meant The End.

On the other hand, a defeat – or even a draw – would make things rather more difficult.

Very rarely will football supporters celebrate a defeat or wallow in a victory.

Röttgen previously seen as a potential successor to Merkel erred during the campaign when he refused to declare whether he would return to North Rhine Westphalia to lead the opposition in the event of a defeat or remain as a minister in Berlin.

Those short, declarative sentences, he wrote once, had a suicide's dread in their silences: dread that "at any instant, by any failure in magic, by a mean defeat, or by a moment of cowardice, Hemingway could be thrust back again into the agonising demands of his courage".

Normally, when a party applauds a defeated or deposed bigwig there is a strong whiff of hypocrisy in the air.