It was then that the defeated enemy — or, rather, an enemy that had vanished or melted away but had not felt itself defeated — waiting and watching in the shadows, decided to strike, decided that we were killable.
And then there's war, the biggest polluter of all, with its horrific, toxic aftermath, from depleted uranium contamination to unexploded bombs to the lingering animosity of the defeated, waiting to explode.
He sat huddled in a dreary concrete room near here, with 14 other defeated fighters, waiting to be taken away for interrogation.
Then there was this England, the rainy, cold England that was the background for every movie about defeated people waiting to die in public housing estates.
I used to read The Autumn of a Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez over and over again, staggered by its virtuosity, the crumbling mansion with its weeds and its cow flops, the stench of lepers and dead roses, harlots with their runts and the insane, defeated general, waiting, indeed believing, he would be re-enthroned and that "the salt of health" would be restored to him.
Finding England not to be the "bucolic" country full of "witty university students," he'd imagined encountering, he is instead greeted by a rainy, forlorn place: "Then there was this England, the rainy, cold England that was the background for every movie about defeated people waiting to die in public housing estates.
But suggestions that the party could, after a 2015 defeat, wait for a new leader until after Boris stands down as mayor in 2016 are also deeply problematic.
When Europe tells him no and when his country's own Constitutional Court hands him defeats, he waits until Hungary is out of the spotlight, and then he adjusts the constitution to make all those unpleasant restrictions go away.
But the fancy cannot cheat so well; he's a mangy, defeated creature now, waiting for a cell to take him.
Second, if Mr Holbrooke acknowledges that the Taliban can not be defeated militarily, why wait three years?
But Pontiac was ready and waiting, and defeated them at the Battle of Bloody Run on July 31 , 1763
