Sentence examples for defeats to launch from inspiring English sources

But, frustrated by successive defeats to launch his career at Sixways, Ryan is insistent that Worcester's past reputation is now going before them.

The Blairites have seized on Labour's defeat to launch a bid to take back control of the party.

Guardian columnist Seumas Milne argues that "the Blairites have seized on Labour's defeat to launch a bid to take back control of the party".

He clarified that claim last week, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, using his bitter defeat in Colorado to launch another attack on the political establishment, writing that "on every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong".

Downs: Loss of the Syria vote on airstrikes, announces the EU referendum Cameron's authority was wounded when he was defeated in his bid to launch airstrikes in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad.

The inquiry has already become a political football, with former Vice President Dick Cheney issuing a statement to The Weekly Standard asserting, "The activities of the C.I.A. in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by Al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States".

The previous government, before its defeat, had studied launching training missions for Christian militias or other anti-IS fighting forces in the region, but was defeated before it was able to launch any of those plans.

After his defeat, Villaraigosa sought a platform to launch another campaign for mayor: He won an Eastside seat on the City Council in 2003.

A successful Kratos plucked Gaia and the Titans from the moment in time before their defeat in the Great War to launch an abortive attack on Olympus.

Japan was being outproduced in carriers and was unable to launch any offensives after its defeat at Midway in June 1942.

Others, including Heinz Guderian, felt that attacking was unnecessary, and the Germans should instead wait for the Soviets to launch their own offensive before defeating it.