Sentence examples for certainty of defeat from inspiring English sources

Parties do not thrive under the certainty of defeat.

Faced with the certainty of being defeated, the government had quickly tabled an amendment promising to publish some kind of plan before triggering article 50 in March next year, so the shadow Brexit secretary, Keir Starmer, tried to pin down the parameters of what might be in the plan.

Notoriously, by the end of 'Certainty' Moore acknowledges defeat: having agreed that if he does not know that he is not dreaming, then he does not know such things as that he is standing up and talking, he accepts (with reservations) that he cannot know for certain that he is not dreaming.

In calculations by terror governments, only the certainty of relentless military pressure and ultimate defeat truly focuses the mind.

It happened in 2000, with the death of Hafez al-Assad and the transfer of power through inheritance — as if the regime could defeat even the certainty of death.

Well that's a confession of defeat.

There was a pervasive sense of defeat.

Most shared a sense of defeat.

"The level of defeat is embarrassing.

We didn't feel afraid of defeat.

Fight without fear of defeat.