Sentence examples for have been defeats from inspiring English sources

There have been defeats before.

Three of those have been defeats, one a draw against a West Ham team reduced to 10 men.

They have yet to sign a marquee player and while their opening two matches have been defeats, they have shown enough that any investment would not be short-term.

While there have been defeats, and the Grad rockets of Colonel Qaddafi's forces still menace the outskirts of Nalut near the Tunisian border and Yafran to the east, rebels point hopefully to the growing stability of the towns under their control as evidence of how tenuous Colonel Qaddafi's grip may be.

They have been defeated," according to Bloomberg News.

Attempts to overthrow his signature healthcare reform have been defeated.

Most of al Qaeda's top lieutenants have been defeated.

"We brontophiles have been defeated," Stephen Jay Gould wrote mournfully, in 1991.

If it doesn't, President Obama will have been defeated.

If West would have selected a spade, six no-trump could have been defeated.

If he had shifted to a diamond, the slam would have been defeated.