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However, deciding to forgo an invitation or express that you are unable to take on an additional task because your plate is already full should not be viewed as an act of defeat.
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Adding more labels -- like "cisgendered male transvestite" -- in order to justify your act of aggression defeats the purpose of simplifying things with words like "cisgendered".
"We must unite and act to defeat the forces of division, intolerance, populism, nationalism and cynicism," he said, echoing her husband's words that she fought every day to make things better.
In several stories, women come to accept the vices of husbands and lovers, their fondness for drink, their irresistibility to women, but acquiescence is not a passive act, a sign of defeat.
In one memorable scene, Wiig's character painstakingly constructs an elaborate cupcake and contemplates it, her mouth twisted into a jagged, sad line, before taking a massive bite — an act of self-destructive defeat rather than of indulgence.
In a senseless act of desperation and defeat, Iraqi troops set fire to more than 700 Kuwaiti oil wells, resulting in a constant fog of thick, black smoke that turned day into night.
Compare, for example, the act of imagining Napoleon defeated at Waterloo "from above" with the act of imagining being Napoleon defeated at Waterloo from the perspective of Napoleon.
The S.E.C. may be less willing to act because of fears of defeat in the D.C. Circuit.
Five years later, in a last epic act of hatred, a defeated Hitler ordered the systematic destruction of Warsaw.
A monastery was founded at Streanœhealh in AD 657 by King Oswiu or Oswy of Northumbria, as an act of thanksgiving, after defeating Penda, the pagan king of Mercia.
The SNP forced the Prime Minister to act before facing the humiliation of defeat over the matter in the House of Commons tomorrow.
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