Sentence examples for kept defeating from inspiring English sources

Security officials at the stadium declined to comment on Wednesday's storm; workers kept trying to clear the field, and nature kept defeating them.

O'Hara is comically trying to end "before anyone else / could get into the poem," but his friends keep defeating him, muttering, advancing, leaping onto the piano stool.

The good news is, we keep defeating them.

Nick Clegg was never likely to agree a deal that kept a defeated prime minister in office.

Moldova's president offered a $10m£6.4m4m) bribe to a political rival in a desperate bid to keep his defeated communist government in power, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.

She kept making mistakes, defeating herself.

I didn't discover some primordial trigger event that explained why I kept stealing defeat from the jaws of victory — there was no abuse in my past, I wasn't mistreated.

But Tsonga kept Federer and defeat at bay, stepping around his backhand to send a forehand up the line for a winner.

Last January, only a controversial call kept the Hurricanes from defeating Ohio State in the championship game.

Outside Quebec, Mr. Trudeau was remembered as the person who carved a larger international role for a country often eclipsed by its southern neighbor, and he was remembered as having kept Canada together by defeating separatist forces in Quebec.

There have been times in Bournemouth's up and mostly down existence when the threat of extinction has stalked them at every turn and they have wondered whether the locks would be thrown over the gates of the Goldsands Stadium for good, so it was not difficult for them to keep this defeat to Aston Villa in perspective.