Sentence examples for generally defeated from inspiring English sources

Washington warned that the process depended on secrecy, "for upon secrecy, success depends in most enterprises of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned and promising a favorable issue".

Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who has worked at the top levels of several campaigns in such negotiations, said that, generally, defeated candidates want to nail down things like how they will be used in the fall campaign and whether the nominee will pay for a separate plane and staff.

After these opening words, he would remove his glasses, look up from the sacred text and continue in a sonorous voice from memory: "All that remains for me to add is that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible, for upon secrecy success depends in most enterprises of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned and promising a favorable issue".

Having lost their built-in majority, the Conservatives can generally defeat the government in the Lords only with the help of the Liberal Democrats.

Most of his wars were against the Muslim kingdoms to the southeast, which he was able to fight and generally defeat one by one, despite their plans to unite against him.

We generally defeat ourselves in our minds and then the behavior follows.

My response tended to be a vague, "Yeah, I know," or generally aggressive and defeated.

Mr. Sall himself won a generally peaceful election, defeating an incumbent who immediately ceded power, just days after the coup in Mali — another demonstration of Senegal's exceptional status in West Africa.

These battle grounds give players a series of objectives to overcome or complete and enemies to defeat, generally within a certain time frame.

In the first grouping, we have Ford, the "accidental president" of our age, who was defeated and is generally thought of (in the kindest possible terms) as nothing more than a "caretaker" president.

Zulu warriors led by Mzilikazi, the eventual founder of the Ndebele (Matabele) people, generally met defeat in their attacks on the inaccessible mountain fortresses of the Venda.