Sentence examples for less defeat from inspiring English sources

I discovered that the less I try to control the outcome, the less defeat takes its bloody toll.

It's not clear if the group has enough metal reserves to even make the coins, much less defeat the stigma that would accompany money bearing Islamic State insignia.

"Limiting our advisors to headquarters buildings will not help newly trained Iraqi and Syrian opposition forces hold terrain, much less defeat ISIL in the field," he said, referring to the Islamic State.

It's a lot to take on for a small company with a small stage, and unfortunately, for all the good will the Mint players bring to the production, the play more or less defeats them.

Oddest of all are the scientists, our little species' own homegrown superior intelligences, whose knowledge and mental capacity are often laughably unequal to understanding (much less defeating) the alien adversary.

But this is also, and originally, Algeria, a quarter of a century earlier—the first major political crisis in the age of modern Islamism.A flurry of freedom in the late 1980s gave way to a vicious civil war in the 1990s that left as many as 200,000 dead and Algeria's Islamists more or less defeated, but not eradicated.

"Far from being contained - much less defeated - Isis has now extended the reach of its terror farther than ever before". In recent weeks, US fears of a terror attack have swelled, with about 70% of Americans saying the risk of an attack in the US is at least "somewhat high".

There isn't a hope of comprehending it, much less defeating it.

As far as I have been able to determine, the Lakers have not played, much less defeated, the championship teams of Europe, South America, Asia, etc.

Montgomery, who finished in 10.13 seconds, more or less acknowledged defeat.

The primary challenge is less to defeat armies than to control populations.