Sentence examples for causes of defeat from inspiring English sources

In the wake of the 2015 election defeat New Labour lost the internal party argument about the causes of defeat.

As any general worth his salt will attest, failure to occupy the right ground is one of the major causes of defeat.

The story of the MNLA's military defeats remains obscure, as admitting causes of defeat appears as painful for the MNLA as it is for the Malian army.

Was it owing to coaching or to those familiar N.F.L. causes of defeat: crucial injuries (to Revis, among others); too many turnovers from a young and yet-to-mature quarterback (Mark Sanchez); and a general lack of offensive imagination and big-play potency Ryan knew little of offense.

Anything is apparently justified in the cause of defeating terrorism.

The internal tensions were papered over while Gore aides made common cause of defeating Mr. Bradley.

Above all, it is in the vital cause of defeating what I call the assassin's veto.

Brooke, who is a devout Christian, has brought an evangelical ardor to the cause of defeating Saddam.

The second is to enlist Washington in its own cause of defeating the Taliban, which the Kremlin believes has helped militants in Chechnya.

Attacking Mr. Gore on campaign finance could also infuriate Democratic primary voters, many of whom think that the Clinton-Gore campaign's aggressive fund-raising in 1996 was done in the good cause of defeating conservative Republicans.

Even the closest of the current poll results translates into a 211-seat margin and possibly more if the two center-left parties, Labor and the Liberal Democrats, engage in tactical voting, where voters switch from one party to the other in the cause of defeating Tories locally.