Sentence examples for clear defeat from inspiring English sources

He never accepted his narrow, but clear, defeat in 2006.

The tendency in Washington is to feel that we have sustained a clear defeat.

For the insurgents, the attack was a clear defeat: No Americans were killed or wounded.

The vote was shameful and, to be blunt, a clear defeat for the Democratic party.

Theresa May is heading for another clear defeat on her Brexit plan.

It was the slimmest margin in Brazil's modern psephological history, but a clear defeat nonetheless.Perhaps this was inevitable.

But Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who leads the Socialist Party, suggested that the Socialists had avoided the clear-cut defeat forecast by pollsters in Andalusia because many voters felt that there was a limit to how much pain Mr. Rajoy's government could impose on citizens entering another recession.

For a fighting force that didn't suffer a clear-cut defeat on the battlefield, the terms of the deal were hard for the FARC to swallow.

Clarity is a gift, and I'm taking these clear moments of feeling confident about the decision I've made and relishing them, cultivating them, liquefying them and spraying them on the windshield so that it will stay clear, defeating the constant fog I've been driving through for years.

Three naval battles were fought during the siege, two of which were clear defeats for the French and the last of which resulted in the siege being abandoned as hopeless after nine months of fruitless shelling.

One chief motive seemed clear: the defeat of Islamic militance in Central Asia, on Russia's southern doorstep.