Victory became defeat, and fast.
The longer the fighting continues, the greater the suffering inflicted upon Iraqi civilians, the solider Arab and Muslim (and European and Asian) anger toward the United States becomes, the bigger the pool of possible terrorist recruits grows — the more these things happen, the higher becomes the cost of victory, until, at some unknowable point, victory becomes defeat.
"References become ruins, defeated fragments fractured from the passing of time or the forced violence of a new regime.
It becomes the defeated ally of a defeated superpower and is left in a greatly weakened position.
When he recorded the third out of the inning, Contreras's slow walk to the dugout became a defeated shuffle.
"However, keeping them manageable is key: they should take us out of our comfort zone but not overwhelm and become self defeating.
The goal became to defeat Obama".
One piece after another seems to pump its arms in the air and shout, "Classical music kicks ass!" At some point, the urge to confound expectations becomes self-defeating.
It was a nine-year odyssey, full of dieting and curtsying, and she didn't become lost or defeated.
Some liberal arts departments in the 1970s did become refuges for defeated leftists who played out their frustrated revolutionary fantasies in classrooms.
