At the moment, for Tottenham, it's as though every defeat counts double, hitting not only their league position but also hacking at the foundations of a possible future.
In most books, the children's skills are used to help them defeat Count Olaf's plots; for instance, Violet invents a lockpick in The Reptile Room.
In the book, the reader plays the role of Jeren Sureblade, a paladin, who must defeat Count Strahd von Zarovich to save a young girl from becoming one of the undead.
This defeat must count as a shock, given that Russia were talked up as possible tournament winners after their stylish 4-1 victony on the first day, though playing this badly they would have been highly unlikely to progress far in the knockout stages.
Prop. 5 can do it, but if it goes down to defeat next week, count on the problems getting much, much worse.
For these Mets, even in defeat, that counts as something close to a victory.
While one party holds power, the other is always busy learning the tactical lesson of its most recent defeat and counting the months until it can strike back.
A biographical meditation, one of the Penguin Lives series, that construes Joan the maid and saint as the patroness of a commitment that fears no defeat and counts no odds.
A running engagement with the French fleet on April 9, 1782, led up to his crowning victory (the Battle of the Saints) off Dominica, when with 36 ships of the line he defeated the Count de Grasse, who had 34 ships (April 12), severely damaging French naval prestige but failing to save Britain's position in North America (see American Revolution).
At the Battle of Breitenfeld, in 1631, Adolphus proved the effectiveness of the changes made to his army, in particular his artillery, by defeating Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.
