The previous government, before its defeat, had studied launching training missions for Christian militias or other anti-IS fighting forces in the region, but was defeated before it was able to launch any of those plans.
Shortly afterward the Turks were defeated before Vienna (1683).
Most guys are defeated before they step into the ring with the Klitschkos.
If you're not determined, you're defeated before you start because too many other teams are determined.
We won't be complacent, but we must not at the same time be defeated before we start".
Andrei Lysenko, a national security council spokesman, said the rebels would be defeated before the onset of winter.
Napoleon Bonaparte had just been defeated at Waterloo, but he had been defeated before – and exiled to the island of Elba, 12 miles off the coast of Tuscany, but had come storming back.
Structurally, it is near-indistinguishable from its predecessor, with several worlds to navigate, each split into seven or so galaxies (the last of which presents you with a boss to be defeated before you're awarded a Grand Star).
