Sentence examples for before being vanquished from inspiring English sources

He won some big fights in Madison Square Garden before being vanquished in a battle with Sgt. Slaughter that "gave new meaning to the word 'violence' " — and may have been the inspiration for the legendary match between Randy (the Ram) Robinson and the Ayatollah in Darren Aronofsky's movie.

IT must get exhausting, inventing monstrous evils year in and year out, especially the sort of ancient, supernatural forces that start by insinuating themselves into the fabric of everyday life and grow to threaten everything sane and decent before being vanquished, against all odds, by a valiant band of unlikely heroes.

I wish I could say that I grew brave, but in reality I could only think of the eight-year-old boy who had gone before me and I couldn't face being vanquished by a child.

Geoblocks for digital media are not being vanquished in this round of EU Digital Single Market regulation chess.

If we congratulate ourselves for voting and then fail to mount sustained grassroots pressure, he will ultimately either vacillate before, or be vanquished by, the stultifying institutions he will confront in DC.

While this approach is hardly something we see in movies or on television today, it does reflect a mindset of an earlier generation, before hope was vanquished by pessimism.

It took 15 years of hard work and good luck before the Reagan deficits were vanquished.

Thus, to Isaiah the primeval dragon was the symbol of the continuing force of chaos and evil that will again have to be vanquished before the kingdom of God can be established on earth.

Others, however, insist that Kim's regime must be vanquished before it acquires greater nuclear capabilities.

The following morning in a campus classroom, Giles uses a series of overhead transparencies to explain to the others that The Gentlemen steal the townspeople's voices so no one can scream as they gather the hearts they need, and that folklore indicates that they have been vanquished before when a princess screamed: the only thing that will kill them is a live human voice.

Even without the Maradona effect, Carney doesn't expect to have to increase rates many times before the nascent threat of inflation is vanquished.