Sentence examples for a sort of defeat from inspiring English sources

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Ezio Calanna, a 22-year-old aspiring journalist who works part time as a waiter, said, "Her death represents a sort of defeat for the West".

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As Henry, Earl of Richmond (Nathan Darrow) — who will become Henry VII and the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth — proclaims, "Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again," the rightful reign of the Tudors is pronounced, and Richard, the last Plantagenet king, sways upside down over the proceedings, like a sort of defeated flag of flesh.

As with the rest of the bad news swirling around the company since it first burst onto the U.S. scene in a garish fashion last year, LeEco isn't admitting any sort of defeat here.

Perhaps, once an artist has enjoyed the kind of colossal success that Perry has seen, she becomes justly worried about any sort of defeat or regression, but terror at the prospect of failure is toxic for art.

But if finding a voucher becomes second nature to smartphone (or any phone -touting phone -toutinghow long before discounts become a ubiquitous commodity, therefore sort-of defeating the puntersr athenast any competitive advantage.

This all sort of defeats the point of an ebook.

I remarked that the initial price of $25 sounded a bit expensive for an aluminum stick and that a stylus sort of defeats the purpose of the iPhone/iPod Touch.

This new arrangement with Nokia seems like it's probably a sort of 11th hour concession of defeat, coming as it does on the heels of a loss to the Finnish company by the District Court of Mannheim published earlier this week which would've seen HTC forced to rethink its device design.

PS: Doesn't giving the target of a roast his own mic sort of defeat the point?

"That sort of defeat will be in your mind for a long time.

It is suggested that it is not enough for Donald Trump to simply lose; instead, he must lose by a wide margin--and, we are further told, that if this sort of defeat of Trump does not take place, it is our fault and not the fault of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton campaign, or the Democratic Party.

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