Sentence examples for defeat rather from inspiring English sources

That'd be an admission of defeat, rather than a sustainable solution".

Katey Stone's US team didn't shrink after the defeat, rather, they punished an underwhelming Swedish team in the semis.

But most are focused on reducing the margin of Mr. Barak's loss to a slim defeat rather than a landslide.

They have described the defeat, rather than properly accounting for it.So Labour needs a leader fitted for the "new politics", able to be conciliatory as well as ruthless.

Last week two other teams appeared to take a strategic defeat rather than put everything on video for the other team, knowing they would meet again this weekend.

There's also a sadness and sense of defeat, rather than the assertion of indomitability in the Churchill statue outside the Houses of Parliament.

They were good ones but the events of the games took us to defeats rather than wins".

That sounds like a damning statement, I know, and I feel defeated rather than smug about it.

But fire, unlike other natural hazards, is still widely considered an enemy to be defeated, rather than a fact of life that must be accepted.

Mr. Reagan was the only major-party candidate for president who argued that the Soviet threat could be defeated, rather than simply managed.

He appeared to accept Option Two also, but only with a single flourishing sentence — "It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated" — rather than a detailed pledge.