Sentence examples for be a defeat from inspiring English sources

"It would be a defeat".

Violence, for him, would be a defeat.

Again, anything less would be a "defeat".

But abandoning Musa Qala again would be "a defeat".

Let it not be a defeat that she died.

This threatened to be a defeat and a heavy one.

2. It would be a defeat for the establishment.

Any such victory for Hamas would be a defeat for the Palestinian people.

They understood — everybody understood — that having any sort of job after graduation would be a defeat.

A victory over Wichita State would be a defeat for believers in statistical analysis.

That would be a defeat for all parties, and emotionally lacerating for Elian.