Sentence examples for meet defeat from inspiring English sources

Some employees, such as salespeople, meet defeat every day.

Taking arms himself, he led his troops against the new and vigorous Bulgar khan, Krum, only to meet defeat and death at the latter's hands.

Others meet defeat in a crisis when a major contract is lost, when a product expected to succeed fails, when the competition outflanks them.

Watched over by religious men, who both enforce a culture of quiet respect and keep away the dogs, the cemetery serves not just as a resting place but also as a midwar testimonial to a distinction no military force could ever want: that of an army that attacked one of its nation's own cities, only to meet defeat.

Bondfield wrote that her religious convictions gave her "strength to meet defeat with a smile, to face success with a sense of responsibility; to be willing to do one's best without hope of reward [and] to bear misrepresentation without giving way to futile bitterness".

Truman is considerably diminshed in stature by his defeat and especially the way he met defeat.

But his plan for universal coverage met defeat in a Democratic Congress.

He served two more terms, briefly, before his plan for proportional representation met defeat in the Senate in March 1913.

When their king met defeat in battle, though, the scribes were among the first to suffer a cruel fate.

But "when their king met defeat in battle, though, the scribes were among the first to suffer a cruel fate".

Even though they eventually met defeat, the Scipio brothers kept Carthage from reinforcing Hannibal during the crucial early years of his invasion of Italy.