Sentence examples for defeats can be from inspiring English sources

Lords defeats can be, and usually are, reversed in the Commons.

But there was no disguising the fact that political defeats can be no more thorough nor more deeply deserved than Mr. Pataki's.

And reveling vicariously in the team's victories and mourning their defeats can be equally engaging.

Defeat can be liberating that way.

In Chandor's shaded moral universe, a seeming defeat can be a victory in disguise.

As Saracens have just demonstrated, the sting of cup final defeat can be a powerful motivator.

"Any defeat can be a positive in time because hopefully it makes you refocus your aims," said Howe.

If there is any lesson to be drawn from the subcontinent's experience of empire, it is that defeat can be negotiated in many different ways.

Similarly, much of what we associate with nondigital games — competition, scoring, victory, defeat — can be removed from a video game without rendering the form unrecognizable.

But while political defeat can be unpleasant, it does not compare with the tragic finality of the extinction of a whole species.

"Gallantry in defeat can be quickly forgotten, where romance comes a sad second to the clamour for success," wrote Alan Lee the Times.