Sentence examples for bitter defeats from inspiring English sources

But what she glimpses – through the prism of her gossipy milieu - is a Latin American landscape of aspiration and disenchantment, brave ideals and bitter defeats.

The two south Caucasian bosses have absorbed the political costs of these bitter defeats, and charted a long-term strategy to reverse them.

After bitter defeats by Barack Obama, party leaders must again balance demands for purity from the right with the need to construct a new national majority.

Hatch recalled a history of bitter defeats for Utah before it finally was awarded the games by the International Olympic Committee in June 1995.

The company and its investors are betting that sports fans — and the players who hung up their cleats and goggles long ago — will want to review and update Web pages devoted to their thrilling victories and bitter defeats.

The victory capped what historians call the 10 crucial days of the American Revolution, in which Washington reversed a string of bitter defeats and went on to transform the Continental Army into a formidable fighting force.

He's had a bitter, bitter defeat".

For the U.A.W., it was another bitter defeat.

Frankel at least stood up and discussed his bitter defeat.

For García, 28, this was a bitter defeat.

But, for the candidate, a tainted victory is still preferable to a bitter defeat.