Sentence examples for if defeat from inspiring English sources

Even if defeat is new, dissent is not.

Washington, even if defeat, should feel pretty good.

When everybody else thought he couldn't lose he campaigned as if defeat was a real possibility.

If defeat means an early exit, a win at Toulon would place it in control of the group.

"If defeat is going to come," Mr. Stillman said, "I'm going to be awake when it arrives".

Finally, there is a distaste for losing as if defeat were a poison, said Dailey, the associate head coach.

Last week Mr Berisha said he would accept the results if defeated.

And few believed the Rajapaksa clan would go quietly if defeated.

Shrugging as if defeated, she added: "We have to get work.

He said he would step down if defeated, but prefers not to leave just now.

Second, even if defeated electorally, the Islamists and their regimes have a trump card: guns.