Sentence examples for in utter defeat from inspiring English sources

The vast expedition against the Vandals ended in utter defeat for the Romans in 468.

When he discovers that the novel she refers to is one she is reading, not writing, he slumps across the table in utter defeat.

On another occasion Scout destroys Henry's eyeglasses on a day when he is stressed about a work deadline, leaving him prostrate on the floor, sobbing in utter defeat.

In his book, he describes the heartbreak of what happened next to the "sorrowful group of confused, unhappy infants … some sank to the floor in utter defeat, many made a headlong dash to the door through which their mothers exited, only to have their way blocked".

"They believe," Al-Akhbar reports, that, "'standing up to an alliance of 40 states without [it] resulting in their utter defeat, to the rest of the world, will mean that a divine power stands with them.'".

In Japan, which rose from utter defeat in World War II to become a prosperous global economic power, many experts talk of a nation preparing for an "elegant" decline.

He appears to think that Japan did very little bad in the imperial years before its utter defeat in 1945 (a view that riles Japan's neighbours).

But at least a third signed the new contracts, accepting utter defeat in exchange for a job and an immediate cash boost.

Still steaming after Georgia's utter defeat in a short war with Russia last August, Georgian organizers decided instead to pull out last month, claiming that Eurovision officials buckled under pressure from Moscow, though Russian officials deny any involvement.

The fall of Tripoli, opined the former US State Department official, was "the first unambiguous military enforcement of the Responsibility to Protect norm, Gaddafi's utter defeat seemingly putting new wind in the sails of humanitarian intervention".

India felt humiliated by its utter defeat at the hands of Mao's army in the 1962 war.