Sentence examples for major defeat from inspiring English sources

But it was nonetheless a major defeat.

The settlement was a major defeat for the Ottomans.

It marked a major defeat for gun control activists.

The idea succeeded, through a series of small victories and one major defeat.

In 1598 he inflicted a major defeat on the Uzbeks and regained control of Khorāsān.

The great winter battle at Stalingrad brought Hitler his first major defeat.

Nonetheless, Mr. Bopp acknowledged that, over all, today's ruling was a major defeat for his side.

The next big tax bill, in 1986, was a major defeat for Mr. Walker, however.

In October Labour MPs voted with anti-European Tories over the EU budget, handing the government its first major defeat.

The Prime Minister has suffered a major defeat at a moment when the economic news is suddenly bleak again.

The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has suffered its first major defeat in Syria.