However, what comes with this type of boldness has been a road filled with small (and large) defeats, ungraceful exits and at times, humiliation.
The question is whether it was a Pyrrhic victory that set the stage for a larger defeat.
Crime... began to fall... Yet, for all this, Major's reward was the largest defeat endured by any party during this lifetime.
68, ARKANSAS 51 Marie Ferdinand scored 13 of her team-high 24 points in the first 10 minutes of the second half as No. 7 Louisiana State sent visiting Arkansas to its largest defeat of the season.
The United States has suffered its largest defeat ever in a trade battle, losing a dispute with Europe over tax policies that force American companies to pay billions more in taxes.
The United States has suffered its largest defeat ever in a trade battle, losing a dispute with Europe about tax policies in a ruling that deals a blow to trans-Atlantic relations and could force American companies to pay billions of dollars more in taxes each year.
Each small victory is eclipsed by a larger defeat.
Their largest defeat was 7 0 away to Sunderland in 1998.
It was the largest defeat of the Byzantines under Emperor Basil II.
Ellison scored a converted try late in the match, but this didn't prevent the Natives suffering their largest defeat of the tour: 16 4 to the Yorkshiremen.
