Sentence examples for difficulties and defeats from inspiring English sources

There will be compromises, difficulties and defeats ahead.

Either Europeans will develop the security and defense identity they have advertised for so long, so Europe can have its own credible voice in a world not only run by soft power, or given the expense and difficulties of defeating even Libya, they will simply stop trying.

Asked why superheroes fascinate audiences on such a grand scale, Cox said: "I think it taps into the child in all of us: we love the idea of being able to battle and defeat our difficulties, whether the difficulty is a Green Goblin … or simply a character flaw".

Wolverine escapes and defeats Sabretooth.

Ratchet chases after Nefarious, and defeats him.

Link ascends the tower and defeats Veran.

Ironhide then battles and defeats Sideways.

But such difficulties and divisions might be less grave than an outright defeat.

For Picture Post, he invoked the socialist Poum militia in Spain (Orwell's own corps) as a model for the Home Guard: "Superficially alike in mixture of uniforms… in shortage of weapons and ammunition, in hasty and incomplete organisation… they seemed to me more fundamentally alike in their serious eagerness to learn, their resolve to meet and defeat all difficulties".

In the 1990 election he narrowly defeated Bosch despite the nation's continuing economic difficulties and fears that Balaguer's advanced age and declining health would invite instability.

Difficulties and doubts multiplied.